{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/surplus-food-regulations-1995/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/surplus-food-regulations-1995/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/184",
  "legislation_title": "The Surplus Food Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/surplus-food-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Offences and penalties",
  "text": "(1) If any person—\n(a) for the purpose of obtaining any surplus food for distribution to any person or in purported compliance with any requirement made by an authorised officer under regulation 3(3)(b) above—\n(i) furnishes information which he knows to be false in a material particular; or\n(ii) recklessly furnishes information which is false or misleading in a material particular; or\n(b) sells any surplus food, or offers, exposes or advertises any surplus food for sale, or has any surplus food in his possession for sale; or\n(c) distributes any surplus food to persons who are not eligible recipients,\nhe shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.\n(2) If any person—\n(a) intentionally obstructs an authorised officer acting in the exercise of a power conferred by regulation 3 above; or\n(b) fails without reasonable excuse to comply with a requirement of an authorised officer pursuant to regulation 3(3)(b), (d) or (e) above or with a requirement of an authorised officer under regulation 3(5) above,\nhe shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(3) Where an offence under this regulation which has been committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or similar officer of the body corporate, or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he as well as the body corporate shall be deemed to be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.\n(4) Where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, the provisions of paragraph (3) above shall apply in relation to the acts and defaults of a member in connection with his functions of management as if he were a director of the body corporate.\n(5) In paragraphs (3) and (4) above the references to a “body corporate” include a partnership in Scotland and, in relation to such partnership, any reference to a director or other officer of a body corporate is a reference to a partner.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/184/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:18:02.289505+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."
}