{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-intended-for-human-consumption-private-supplies-scotland-regulations-2017/schedule-8/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-intended-for-human-consumption-private-supplies-scotland-regulations-2017/schedule-8/paragraph-7.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2017/282",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Intended for Human Consumption (Private Supplies) (Scotland) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-intended-for-human-consumption-private-supplies-scotland-regulations-2017",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Commercially confidential information",
  "text": "(1) A person who enters any premises in the exercise of a power conferred by these Regulations commits an offence if the person makes use of or discloses any information obtained by the person on those premises with regard to any manufacturing process or trade secret.\n(2) A person who commits an offence under sub-paragraph (1) is liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum; or\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in sch. 8 para. 7(1) substituted (26.10.2017) by The Public and Private Water Supplies (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/321), regs. 1, 4(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 7 in force at 27.10.2017, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2017/282/schedule/8/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:17:02.229514+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."
}