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Obstruction

20.  No person shall–

(a) intentionally obstruct any person acting in the execution of these Regulations;

(b) without reasonable cause, fail to give to any person acting in the execution of these Regulations any assistance or information which that person may reasonably require for the purposes of their functions under these Regulations.

Furnishing false information

21.  No person shall furnish to any person acting in the execution of these Regulations any information which is known to be false or misleading.

Offences by bodies corporate

22.—(1) Where a body corporate is guilty of an offence under these Regulations, and that offence is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to have been attributable to any neglect on the part of–

(a) any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or

(b) any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity,

that officer or person as well as the body corporate, shall be guilty of the offence and be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

(2) For the purposes of this regulation, “director” in relation to a body corporate whose affairs are managed by its members, means a member of the body corporate.

Penalties

23.  A person contravening any provision of these Regulations is guilty of an offence and liable–

(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or to imprisonment not exceeding three months, or to both;

(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to both.

Authorisations, certificates or approvals issued in another part of the British Islands

24.—(1) Where these Regulations require any authorisation, certificate or approval to be issued or granted by the Scottish Ministers, an equivalent document issued in another part of the British Islands by the relevant competent authority is valid.

(2) Where these Regulations require anything to be processed in approved premises in Scotland, anything processed in premises approved for those purposes in another part of the British Islands shall be treated as if it had been processed in approved premises in Scotland.

Enforcement

25.  These Regulations shall be enforced by the Scottish Ministers or the local authority.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations give effect in Scotland to Commission Decision 2007/552/EC concerning interim protection measures with regard to foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom.

They regulate–

• the importation and dispatch of live animals (regulations 4 and 5),

• the export of meat from bovine, ovine caprine and porcine animals (regulation 6),

• the export of meat products, milk and dairy products (regulations 7, 8 and 9),

• the export of semen, ova or embryos of animals of the bovine, ovine, caprine and porcine species and other biungulates (regulation 10), hides and skins (regulation 11) and various animal products (regulation 12),

• the export of equidae (regulation 15).

They create offences of personal export and of offering to export anything which it is prohibited to export under the Regulations (regulations 16 and 17).

They provide powers in respect of enforcement (regulation 18) and create offences of obstruction and furnishing false information (regulations 20 and 21).

Breach of the Regulations is an offence, punishable–

(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or to imprisonment not exceeding three months or to both;

(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both.

The Regulations are enforced by the Scottish Ministers or the local authority (regulation 25).

A regulatory impact assessment has not been prepared for these Regulations.