SCHEDULE 2The Scottish Beef Scheme administration and enforcement

Offences

7.  A person commits an offence if he or she—

(a)obstructs an authorised person (or a person accompanying an authorised person and acting under the authorised person’s instructions) in the exercise of a power conferred by paragraph 2;

(b)fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with a request made under paragraph 3; or

(c)supplies information to an authorised person (or a person accompanying an authorised person and acting under the authorised person’s instructions), knowing it to be false or misleading.