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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-control-act-1966/section-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-control-act-1966/section-9.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1966/27",
  "legislation_title": "Building Control Act 1966",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-control-act-1966",
  "path": "section/9",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Enforcement.",
  "text": "(1) Where it appears to the Minister that any such work as is mentioned in section 1(1) of this Act is being, or has at any time within the preceding year been, carried out on any land, the Minister may—\n(a) authorise any person to enter and inspect the land and any such work for the purpose of ascertaining whether the provisions of this Act are applicable to the work and whether those provisions, or the provisions of any licence issued under this Act, are being or have been complied with;\n(b) for the said purpose, by notice require the person at whose expense the work is being or has been carried out, and any person who is or has been engaged in the carrying out of the work, to furnish to the Minister or the person specified in the notice such information, and to produce for examination on behalf of the Minister such books, estimates, returns, accounts or other documents in his possession or control, as may be so specified.\n(2) A person claiming to exercise a power of entry under subsection (1)(a) of this section shall, if so required, produce written evidence of his authority.\n(3) Any person who wilfully obstructs any person in the exercise of a power of entry under paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale; and any person who refuses or without reasonable excuse fails to comply with a notice under paragraph (b) of that subsection shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to both.\n(4) Any person who in purported compliance with a notice under subsection (1)(b) of this section or in connection with an application for a licence under this Act—\n(a) produces, sends or otherwise makes use of a document which he knows to be false in a material particular or recklessly produces, sends or otherwise makes use of a document which is false in a material particular; or\n(b) makes any statement which he knows to be false in a material particular or recklessly makes any statement which is false in a material particular,\nshall be guilty of an offence and liable—\n(i) on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to both;\n(ii) on conviction on indictment to a fine, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to both.\n(5) Where an offence under this Act committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part 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.\n(6) In the last foregoing subsection “director”, in relation to a body corporate established by or under any enactment for the purpose of carrying on under national ownership any industry or undertaking or part of an industry or undertaking, being a body corporate whose affairs are managed by its members, means a member of that body corporate.\n(7) Proceedings in respect of an offence under this Act shall not be instituted in England or Wales except by or with the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), ss. 289F, 289G"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1966/27/section/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:56:27.365592+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}