{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-pensions-and-social-security-act-northern-ireland-2000/section-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-pensions-and-social-security-act-northern-ireland-2000/section-13.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2000/4",
  "legislation_title": "Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-pensions-and-social-security-act-northern-ireland-2000",
  "path": "section/13",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Information - offences",
  "text": "After Article 16 of the Child Support Order there shall be inserted—\n“Information - offences\n16A (1) This Article applies to—\n(a) persons who are required to comply with regulations under Article 7(4); and\n(b) persons specified in regulations under Article 16(1)(a).\n(2) Such a person is guilty of an offence if, pursuant to a request for information under or by virtue of those regulations—\n(a) he makes a statement or representation which he knows to be false; or\n(b) he provides, or knowingly causes or knowingly allows to be provided, a document or other information which he knows to be false in a material particular.\n(3) Such a person is guilty of an offence if, following such a request, he fails to comply with it.\n(4) It is a defence for a person charged with an offence under paragraph (3) to prove that he had a reasonable excuse for failing to comply.\n(5) A person guilty of an offence under this Article is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2000/4/section/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:21:56.554926+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."
}