{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-damage-act-1971/section-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-damage-act-1971/section-9.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1971/48",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Damage Act 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-damage-act-1971",
  "path": "section/9",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Evidence in connection with offences under this Act.",
  "text": "A person shall not be excused, by reason that to do so may incriminate that person or the spouse or civil partner of that person of an offence under this Act—\n(a) from answering any question put to that person in proceedings for the recovery or administration of any property, for the execution of any trust or for an account of any property or dealings with property; or\n(b) from complying with any order made in any such proceedings;\nbut no statement or admission made by a person in answering a question put or complying with an order made as aforesaid shall, in proceedings for an offence under this Act, be admissible in evidence against that person or (unless they married or became civil partners after the making of the statement or admission) against the spouse or civil partner of that person.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 9 substituted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 263(10)(b), Sch. 27 para. 36(a); S.I. 2005/3175, art. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 9 substituted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 263(10)(b), Sch. 27 para. 36(b); S.I. 2005/3175, art. 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/48/section/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:49:52.020588+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."
}