{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agricultural-statistics-act-1979/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agricultural-statistics-act-1979/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/13",
  "legislation_title": "Agricultural Statistics Act 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agricultural-statistics-act-1979",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Penalties.",
  "text": "(1) Any person who without reasonable excuse fails to furnish information in compliance with a requirement under section 1 ... above shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(2) If any person—\n(a) in purported compliance with a requirement imposed under section 1 ... above knowingly or recklessly furnishes any information which is false in any material particular, or\n(b) publishes or otherwise discloses any information in contravention of section 3 above,\nhe shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or to a fine not exceeding the prescribed sum or to both, or on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to a fine or to both.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 4(1) repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 2 Group 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), ss. 38, 46"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 4(2) repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 2 Group 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/13/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:18:26.409842+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."
}