{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arms-control-and-disarmament-inspections-act-1991/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arms-control-and-disarmament-inspections-act-1991/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/41",
  "legislation_title": "Arms Control and Disarmament (Inspections) Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arms-control-and-disarmament-inspections-act-1991",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Offences.",
  "text": "(1) Where an authorisation has been issued under section 2 in respect of any challenge inspection, any person who—\n(a) refuses to comply with any request made by any constable for the purpose of facilitating the conduct of that inspection in accordance with Section VI of the Protocol, or\n(b) wilfully obstructs any member of the inspection team or of the escort team in the conduct of that inspection in accordance with that Section,\nshall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the third level on the standard scale.\n(2) Where an offence under this section is committed by a body corporate and is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.\nIn relation to a body corporate whose affairs are managed by its members, “director” means a member of the body corporate.\n(3) Where an offence under this section is committed in Scotland by a Scottish partnership and is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of a partner, he as well as the partnership shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 3 wholly in force at 17.7.1992 see s. 6(2) and S.I. 1992/1750, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2003/34",
      "affecting_title": "Arms Control and Disarmament (Inspections) Act 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/41/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:37:07.674102+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."
}