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Obstruction

21.  No person is to—

(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 his or her functions under these Regulations; or

(c) furnish to any person acting in the execution of these Regulations any information which he or she knows to be false or misleading.

Furnishing false information

22.  No person is to furnish to any person acting in the execution of these Regulations any information which he or she knows to be false or misleading.

Offences by bodies corporate

23.—(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,

he or she as well as the body corporate, is guilty of the offence and is 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

24.  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, etc. issued in another part of the British Islands

25.—(1) Where these Regulations require any authorisation, certificate or approval to be issued or granted by the Welsh Ministers in relation to Wales, 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 done in approved establishments or cutting plants in Wales, anything done in premises approved for those purposes in another part of the British Islands must be treated as if it had been processed in approved premises in Wales.

Sharing information

26.  The Welsh Ministers, the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs and any local authority may exchange information for the purposes of these Regulations and may divulge information to the enforcement authorities in another part of the British Islands.

Enforcement

27.  These Regulations must be enforced by the Welsh Ministers or the local authority.

Revocations

28.  The Import and Export Restrictions (Foot-And-Mouth Disease) (Wales) Regulations 2007(23)

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which apply in relation to Wales, revoke and re make with amendments the Import and Export Restrictions (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) (Wales) Regulations 2007. They implement Commission Decision 2007/554/EC concerning certain protection measures against foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom.

They regulate—

(a) the importation and dispatch of live animals (regulations 4 and 5);

(b) the export of meat from bovine, ovine caprine and porcine animals and other biungulates (regulation 6);

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

(d) 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);

(e) the export of equidae (regulation 15); and

(f) personal exports (regulation 16)

They create an offence of offering to export anything which it is prohibited to export under the Regulations (regulation 17).

They provide powers for enforcement and powers for officers of Revenue and Customs (regulations 18 to 20) and create an offence of obstruction (regulation 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 Welsh Ministers or the local authority (regulation 27).

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