{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-medicines-regulations-2005/regulation-37",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-medicines-regulations-2005/regulation-37.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2745",
  "legislation_title": "The Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-medicines-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/37",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Improvement notices",
  "text": "(1) If an inspector has reasonable grounds for believing that any person is failing to comply with these Regulations he may serve a notice on that person (in these Regulations referred to as an “improvement notice”) that —\n(a) states the inspector’s grounds for believing this;\n(b) specifies the matters which constitute the failure so to comply;\n(c) specifies the measures which, in the officer’s opinion, the person must take in order to secure compliance; and\n(d) requires the person to take those measures, or measures which are at least equivalent to them, within such period (not being less than 14 days) as may be specified in the notice.\n(2) It is an offence to fail to comply with an improvement notice.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2745/regulation/37",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:49:34.048072+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."
}