{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/surface-waters-shellfish-classification-scotland-regulations-1997/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/surface-waters-shellfish-classification-scotland-regulations-1997/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2470",
  "legislation_title": "The Surface Waters (Shellfish) (Classification) (Scotland) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/surface-waters-shellfish-classification-scotland-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Information required in connection with implementation of the Directive",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Environment Protection Agency may serve on any person a notice requiring that person to furnish the Agency within a period or at times specified in the notice and in a form so specified, with such information as is reasonably required by the Agency for the purposes of giving effect to Directive 79/923/EEC.\n(2) A person who fails without reasonable excuse to comply with the requirements of a notice served on him under this regulation shall be guilty of an offence and liable–\n(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum;\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or both.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "ssi/2007/427",
      "affecting_title": "The Surface Waters (Shellfish) (Classification) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2470/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:49:46.860494+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."
}