{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-at-markets-order-1990/article-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-at-markets-order-1990/article-20.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/2628",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare of Animals at Markets Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-at-markets-order-1990",
  "path": "article/20",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "Any person who, without lawful authority or excuse, proof of which shall lie on him—\n(a) defaces, obliterates or removes any mark applied to an animal in pursuance of article 18; or\n(b) makes a declaration or statement for the purposes of this Order which he knows to be false in a material particular, or, for those purposes, recklessly makes a declaration or statement which is false in a material particular; or\n(c) contravenes any provision of this Order or any provision of an approval issued under it; or\n(d) fails to comply with any such provision or with any condition of any such approval; or\n(e) knowingly causes or permits any such contravention or non-compliance,\ncommits an offence against the Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/2628/article/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:53:52.737521+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."
}