{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-in-goods-control-order-2003/article-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-in-goods-control-order-2003/article-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/2765",
  "legislation_title": "The Trade in Goods (Control) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-in-goods-control-order-2003",
  "path": "article/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Offences and penalties",
  "text": "(1) Any person who contravenes a prohibition in article 3 or 4 shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(2) Any person knowingly concerned in the supply, delivery, transfer, acquistion or disposal of any restricted or controlled goods with intent to evade any prohibition or restriction in article 3(1) or 4 shall be guilty of an offence.\n(3) Any person knowingly concerned in the supply or delivery of any restricted goods with intent to evade any prohibition or restriction in article 3(2) shall be guilty of an offence.\n(4) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (2) or (3) shall be liable—\n(a) on summary conviction to a fine of the prescribed sum or to imprisonment for a term not exceding 6 months, or to both; or\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine of any amount, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years, or to both.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/443",
      "affecting_title": "The Trade in Goods (Control) (Amendment) Order 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/1805",
      "affecting_title": "The Trade in Goods (Categories of Controlled Goods) Order 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev in pt",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/1805",
      "affecting_title": "The Trade in Goods (Categories of Controlled Goods) Order 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2765/article/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:46:05.696919+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."
}