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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clean-neighbourhoods-and-environment-act-northern-ireland-2011/section-28",
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  "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/28",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Penalty notices: power to require name and address",
  "text": "(1) If an authorised officer of a district council proposes to give a person a notice under section 26(1), the officer may require the person to give the officer that person's name and address.\n(2) A person who—\n(a) fails to give that person's name and address when required to do so under subsection (1), or\n(b) gives a false or inaccurate name or address in response to a requirement under that subsection,\ncommits an offence.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (2) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(4) In this section “authorised officer” has the same meaning as in section 26.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 28 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/28",
    "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."
}