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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/birmingham-commonwealth-games-act-2020/schedule-3/paragraph-12",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2020/10",
  "legislation_title": "Birmingham Commonwealth Games Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/birmingham-commonwealth-games-act-2020",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/12",
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  "number": "12",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) An officer of a local weights and measures authority in England may do anything which the officer considers necessary or expedient to conceal any advertising which the officer reasonably suspects is an offence under section 13.\nThis does not affect any power of the officer to seize the advertising.\n(2) If the officer considers that it is not reasonably practicable to seize or conceal the advertising, the officer may deface or destroy the advertising.\n(3) An officer may exercise any power conferred by any of paragraphs 23 and 32 to 34(1) of Schedule 5 to the 2015 Act (powers of entry etc) for the purpose of exercising a power conferred by sub-paragraph (1) or (2) above.\n(4) Nothing may be concealed under sub-paragraph (1) for any longer than is necessary to prevent the commission of an offence under section 13.\n(5) But a person is not liable by virtue of sub-paragraph (4) for failing to uncover any advertising if the person took all reasonable steps—\n(a) to uncover the advertising as soon as reasonably practicable after the concealment ceased to be necessary for the purpose mentioned in that sub-paragraph, or\n(b) to ensure that any other person was able to do so.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2020/10/schedule/3/paragraph/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:01:49.329090+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."
}