{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clean-neighbourhoods-and-environment-act-northern-ireland-2011/section-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clean-neighbourhoods-and-environment-act-northern-ireland-2011/section-15.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2011/23",
  "legislation_title": "Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act (Northern Ireland) 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clean-neighbourhoods-and-environment-act-northern-ireland-2011",
  "path": "section/15",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Penalty for failing to provide name",
  "text": "(1) Article 5 of the Litter (Northern Ireland) Order 1994 (NI 10) (enforcement of Articles 3 and 4) shall be amended as follows.\n(2) For paragraph (3) substitute—\n“(3) A person commits an offence if—\n(a) he fails to give his name and address in response to a demand under paragraph (1), or\n(b) he gives a false or inaccurate name or address in response to a demand under that paragraph.\n(3A) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (3) shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.”.\n(3) In paragraph (5), after the words “In this Article—” insert—\n““authorised officer” has the same meaning as in Article 6;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 15 in operation at 1.4.2012 by S.R. 2012/13, art. 2(2), Sch. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2011/23/section/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:20:43.734706+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."
}