PART 2 S MAIN PROVISIONS

Offences relating to regulations 9 and 10 S

12.  A person who–

(a) intentionally obstructs a person exercising powers under regulation 10(4)(a), (b) or (c);

(b) fails without reasonable excuse to comply with any requirement imposed under regulation 9(1) or (4)(d); or

(c) in purported compliance with such a requirement–

(i) furnishes information which that person knows to be false or misleading in any material particular; or

(ii) recklessly furnishes information which is false or misleading in any material particular,

is guilty of an offence.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Reg. 12 applied (with modifications) (15.3.2007) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food) (Scotland) Regulations 2007 (S.S.I. 2007/91), regs. 1(1), 9(1)(2)