{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/automated-vehicles-act-2024/section-30",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/automated-vehicles-act-2024/section-30.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2024/10",
  "legislation_title": "Automated Vehicles Act 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/automated-vehicles-act-2024",
  "path": "section/30",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": "Offences of impeding execution of warrant",
  "text": "(1) A person commits an offence if the person—\n(a) intentionally obstructs a person in the exercise of the powers in section 29,\n(b) fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with a requirement made of the person in the exercise of those powers, or\n(c) in response to such a requirement, makes a statement that is false or misleading in a material respect, knowing it to be so or being reckless as to whether it is.\n(2) A person who commits an offence under this section is liable—\n(a) on summary conviction in England or Wales, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding the general limit in a magistrates’ court or a fine (or both);\n(b) on summary conviction in Scotland, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum (or both);\n(c) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or a fine (or both).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 30 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 99(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/10/section/30",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:48:23.238587+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."
}