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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/chemical-weapons-overseas-territories-order-2005/schedule-1/paragraph-23",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/854",
  "legislation_title": "The Chemical Weapons (Overseas Territories) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/chemical-weapons-overseas-territories-order-2005",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/23",
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  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Identifying persons who have information",
  "text": "(1) The Governor may make regulations requiring persons of any description specified in the regulations to inform him that they are of such a description.\n(2) Any such description must be so framed that persons within it are persons on whom the Governor is likely to want to serve a notice under section 22.\n(3) If regulations are made under this section the Governor shall arrange for a statement of the fact that they have been made to be published in such manner as is likely to bring them to the attention of persons affected by them.\n(4) A person who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with a requirement imposed by the regulations is guilty of an offence and liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding £5,000 or its equivalent;\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine.\n(5) A person who knowingly makes a false or misleading statement in response to a requirement imposed by the regulations is guilty of an offence and liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding £5,000 or its equivalent;\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine or to both.\n(6) [omitted]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/854/schedule/1/paragraph/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:02:05.459828+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."
}