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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-in-animals-and-related-products-scotland-regulations-2012/regulation-33",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2012/177",
  "legislation_title": "The Trade in Animals and Related Products (Scotland) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-in-animals-and-related-products-scotland-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/33",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "A person commits an offence if the person—\n(a) intentionally obstructs any person acting in the execution of these Regulations or the Official Controls Regulation;\n(b) without reasonable cause, fails to give any person acting in execution of these Regulations or the Official Controls Regulation any assistance or information that that person may reasonably require for the purpose of carrying out functions under these Regulations or the Official Controls Regulation;\n(c) furnishes to any person acting in the execution of these Regulations or the Official Controls Regulation any information knowing it to be false or misleading; ...\n(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(e) without reasonable excuse fails to comply with any of the following provisions—\nProvision\nDescription of offence\n. . .\n. . .\n. . .\n. . .\n. . .\n. . .\n. . .\n. . .\n. . .\n. . .\n. . .\n. . .\nregulation 11\nimportation other than through a border control post or a point of entry for which a border control post has been designated\nregulation 12\nFailure to notify\nregulation 13(1)\nFailure to present a consignment for inspection\nregulation 13(2)\nFailure to comply with a notice\nregulation 14(1)\nRemoval from a border control post without a CHED or authority of the official veterinarian\nregulation 14(2)\nFailure to transport a consignment to the place specified in the CHED accompanied by its CHED\nregulation 15\nMovement other than under Customs supervision and failure to notify the Scottish Ministers\nregulation 21(5)\nFailure to re-export a horse\nregulation 23(3)\nFailure to transport in accordance with paragraph (3)(a) or to destroy consignment as animal by-products\nregulation 24\nBringing a non-compliant product into a warehouse etc.\nregulation 25(4)\nBringing in an animal or product in breach of a declaration\nregulation 31(3)\nDisclosure of information\nSchedule 2:\n. . .\n. . .\n. . .\n. . .\n. . .\n. . .\n. . .\n. . .\n. . .\n. . .\nparagraph 7(2)\nSlaughter of animals\nparagraph 7(3)\nKeeping animals at their place of destination\nparagraph 8(2)\nTransport of birds to approved quarantine facilities or centres\nparagraph 8(3)\nRelease of birds from quarantine\nparagraph 10\nUse of a certificate relating to ships' stores\nSchedule 3 paragraph 3(3)\nDestruction or redispatch in accordance with the authorisation",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 33 inserted (14.12.2019) by The Official Controls (Agriculture etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/412), regs. 1(1), 24(28)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 33(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Trade in Animals and Related Products (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/458), regs. 1(3), 2(27)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 33(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Trade in Animals and Related Products (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/458), regs. 1(3), 2(27)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 33(c) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Trade in Animals and Related Products (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/458), regs. 1(3), 2(27)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in reg. 33(c) omitted (1.7.2012) by virtue of The Trade in Animals and Related Products (Scotland) Amendment Order 2012 (S.S.I. 2012/198), arts. 1(b), 2(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. 33(d) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Trade in Animals and Related Products (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/458), regs. 1(3), 2(27)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Reg. 33(d)(e) substituted for reg. 33(d) (1.7.2012) by The Trade in Animals and Related Products (Scotland) Amendment Order 2012 (S.S.I. 2012/198), arts. 1(b), 2(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in reg. 33(e) Table omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Trade in Animals and Related Products (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/458), regs. 1(3), 2(27)(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in reg. 33 table omitted (1.7.2012) by virtue of The Trade in Animals and Related Products (Scotland) Amendment Order 2012 (S.S.I. 2012/198), arts. 1(b), 2(3)(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in reg. 33(e) table substituted (10.2.2025) by The Official Controls (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/102), regs. 1(1)(b), 44(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in reg. 33(e) Table substituted (31.12.2020) by The Trade in Animals and Related Products (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/458), regs. 1(3), 2(27)(c)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Word in reg. 33(e) Table substituted (31.12.2020) by The Trade in Animals and Related Products (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/458), regs. 1(3), 2(27)(c)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Words in reg. 33 Table substituted (1.7.2012) by The Trade in Animals and Related Products (Scotland) Amendment Order 2012 (S.S.I. 2012/198), arts. 1(b), 2(3)(c)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Words in reg. 33(e) Table omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Trade in Animals and Related Products (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/458), regs. 1(3), 2(27)(c)(iv)"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/177/regulation/33",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:43:52.526570+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."
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