{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/anti-social-behaviour-crime-and-policing-act-2014/section-118",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/anti-social-behaviour-crime-and-policing-act-2014/section-118.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2014/12",
  "legislation_title": "Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/anti-social-behaviour-crime-and-policing-act-2014",
  "path": "section/118",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "118",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) An offence is committed by a person who fails without reasonable excuse to comply with a requirement imposed on the person under section 116(4).\n(2) An offence is committed by a person who, in response to a requirement imposed on the person under section 116(4), provides incorrect information which the person—\n(a) did not take reasonable steps to verify or to have verified, or\n(b) knows to be incorrect.\n(3) A person does not commit an offence under subsection (2)(a) if there were no steps that the person could reasonably have taken to verify the information or to have it verified.\n(4) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 118 in force at 1.9.2014 by S.I. 2014/2125, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/12/section/118",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:27:00.543848+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."
}