{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-medicines-regulations-2013/schedule-5/paragraph-31",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2013/2033",
  "legislation_title": "The Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-medicines-regulations-2013",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/31",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "It is an offence to fail to comply with—\n(a) paragraph 2(2);\n(b) paragraph 3(3) or (4);\n(c) paragraph 5(2) or (3);\n(d) paragraph 6;\n(e) paragraph 7(2) or (5);\n(f) paragraph 8;\n(g) paragraph 9;\n(h) paragraph 10;\n(i) paragraph 11;\n(j) paragraph 12(4);\n(k) paragraph 13;\n(l) paragraph 14(4);\n(m) paragraph 15;\n(n) paragraph 16;\n(o) paragraph 17;\n(p) paragraph 18;\n(pa) paragraph 19;\n(q) paragraph 20;\n(r) paragraph 21;\n(ra) paragraph 22A;\n(s) paragraph 23;\n(t) paragraph 24;\n(u) paragraph 25;\n(v) paragraph 26(1) , (2), (2A), (2B) or (2C);\n(va) paragraph 26A;\n(w) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(x) paragraph 28; or\n(y) paragraph 29(2).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 31(pa) inserted (E.W.S.) (17.5.2024) by The Veterinary Medicines (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/567), regs. 1(1), 153(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 5 para. 31(q) substituted (14.4.2014) by The Veterinary Medicines (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/599), regs. 1, 3(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 31(ra) inserted (E.W.S.) (17.5.2024) by The Veterinary Medicines (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/567), regs. 1(1), 153(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 31(v) substituted (E.W.S.) (17.5.2024) by The Veterinary Medicines (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/567), regs. 1(1), 153(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 31(va) inserted (E.W.S.) (17.5.2024) by The Veterinary Medicines (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/567), regs. 1(1), 153(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 31(w) omitted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Veterinary Medicines and Animals and Animal Products (Examination of Residues and Maximum Residue Limits) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/676), regs. 1(2)(b), 3(35)(e) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1461, regs. 1(2)(a), 3(2)(b)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This version of this provision extends to England and Wales and Scotland only; a separate version has been created for Northern Ireland only"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/2033/schedule/5/paragraph/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:44:44.019972+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."
}