{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-farmed-animals-england-regulations-2007/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-farmed-animals-england-regulations-2007/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/2078",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare of Farmed Animals (England) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-farmed-animals-england-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) A person commits an offence if, without lawful authority or excuse, he—\n(a) contravenes, or does not comply with a duty in, regulation 4, 5 or 6;\n(b) makes an entry in a record, or gives any information for the purposes of these Regulations which he knows to be false in any material particular or, for those purposes, recklessly makes a statement or gives any information which is false in any material particular; or\n(c) causes or permits any of the above.\n(2) A food business operator who, without lawful authority or excuse, fails to comply with a duty in paragraph 14(2) of Schedule 5A, commits an offence.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 7(1): reg. 7 renumbered as reg. 7(1) (23.12.2010) by The Welfare of Farmed Animals (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/3033), regs. 1, 6(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 7(2) added (23.12.2010) by The Welfare of Farmed Animals (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/3033), regs. 1, 6(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/2078/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:48:11.649851+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."
}