{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/spirit-drinks-regulations-1990/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/spirit-drinks-regulations-1990/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1179",
  "legislation_title": "The Spirit Drinks Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/spirit-drinks-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Offences and penalties",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, if any person contravenes, or fails to comply with, any specified Community provision he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or on conviction on indictment to a fine.\n(2) Paragraph (1) above shall not apply in any case to which Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3773/89 laying down transitional measures relating to spirituous beverages applies.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No L365, 15.12.89, p.48."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/732",
      "affecting_title": "The Spirit Drinks (Amendment) Regulations 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "words added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/2486",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Safety Act 1990 (Consequential Modifications) (England and Wales) Order 1990"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1179/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:19:38.474644+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."
}