{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-1989/schedule-14/paragraph-4B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-1989/schedule-14/paragraph-4B.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1989/40",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Act 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-1989",
  "path": "schedule/14/paragraph/4B",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4B",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A person commits an offence if he intentionally alters, suppresses or destroys a document which he has been required to produce by a notice under paragraph 4.\n(2) A person who commits an offence under sub-paragraph (1) shall be liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum;\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine or to both.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 14 para. 4B inserted (1.4.2003) by 2002 c. 40, s. 278, Sch. 25 para. 21(4)(d); S.I. 2003/766, art. 2, Sch. (with transitional and transitory provision in art. 3)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/40/schedule/14/paragraph/4B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:45:50.516840+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."
}