{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charges-administration-and-enforcement-regulations-1989/regulation-51",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charges-administration-and-enforcement-regulations-1989/regulation-51.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/438",
  "legislation_title": "The Community Charges (Administration and Enforcement) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charges-administration-and-enforcement-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/51",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "51",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) A person shall be guilty of an offence if, following a request under paragraph (2)(b) of regulation 31, he is under a duty to supply information and–\n(a) he fails without reasonable excuse to supply the information in accordance with that regulation, or\n(b) in supplying information in purported compliance with that regulation he makes a statement which is false in a material particular.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), a person shall be guilty of an offence if, following the service of an attachment of earnings order on him under regulation 32(3), he is under a duty to comply with the order by virtue of that provision and he fails to do so.\n(3) It shall be a defence for a person charged with an offence under paragraph (2) to prove that he took all reasonable steps to comply with the order.\n(4) A person shall be guilty of an offence if he is under a duty to notify another person under regulation 34(2) and (3), 34(4) and (5), 34(6) and (7) or 35 and–\n(a) he fails without reasonable excuse to notify the other person in accordance with the provision concerned, or\n(b) in notifying the other person in purported compliance with the provision concerned he makes a statement which he knows to be false in a material particular or recklessly makes a statement which is false in a material particular.\n(5) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (1)(a) or (4)(a) shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.\n(6) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (1)(b), (2) or (4)(b) shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1989/712",
      "affecting_title": "The Community Charges (Administration and Enforcement) (Amendment) Regulations 1989"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/438/regulation/51",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:47:36.116122+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."
}