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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/products-of-animal-origin-import-and-export-regulations-1996/regulation-37",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/3124",
  "legislation_title": "The Products of Animal Origin (Import and Export) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/products-of-animal-origin-import-and-export-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/37",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Offences and penalties",
  "text": "(1) A person contravening any provision of these Regulations or any notice served under them shall be guilty of an offence.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under regulation 36(1)(a) or (b) shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both.\n(3) A person guilty of any other offence under these Regulations shall be liable—\n(a) on conviction on indictment, to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both;\n(b) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or to imprisonment not exceeding three months or to both.\n(4) Paragraphs (1) to (3) above shall not apply to anything done or omitted by the Minister, the Secretary of State or a local authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/656",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
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      "affecting": "ssi/2000/62",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) (Scotland) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "certain functions transferred",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/253",
      "affecting_title": "The National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/1553",
      "affecting_title": "The Gelatine (Intra-Community Trade) (England) Regulations 2001"
    },
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      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/1553",
      "affecting_title": "The Gelatine (Intra-Community Trade) (England) Regulations 2001"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/3124/regulation/37",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:29:48.785368+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}