{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/spirit-drinks-regulations-2008/regulation-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/spirit-drinks-regulations-2008/regulation-14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/3206",
  "legislation_title": "The Spirit Drinks Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/spirit-drinks-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Appeals against improvement notices",
  "text": "(1) Any person who is aggrieved about an improvement notice may appeal against that notice to the relevant court.\n(2) The procedure on an appeal to a magistrates' court under paragraph (1) is by way of complaint, and in England and Wales, the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 applies to the proceedings.\n(3) An appeal to the sheriff under paragraph (1) is by summary application.\n(4) The period within which an appeal may be brought is 28 days, beginning with the day on which the improvement notice is given.\n(5) The relevant court may suspend an improvement notice pending an appeal.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 14(2) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Agricultural Products, Food and Drink (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1637), regs. 1(7), 10(9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This version of this provision extends to England and Wales and Scotland only; a separate version has been created for Northern Ireland only"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/3206/regulation/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:20:04.998706+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."
}