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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-defence-act-1939-repealed/section-77",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/2-3/31",
  "legislation_title": "Civil Defence Act 1939 (Repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-defence-act-1939-repealed",
  "path": "section/77",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "77",
  "heading": "Penalty for false statements.",
  "text": "Any person who in any report made by him under this Act . . . makes any statement which he knows to be false shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 77 repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. XVI Group1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), ss. 38, 46 and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), ss. 289F, 289G"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/2-3/31/section/77",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:32:43.632756+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."
}