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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-rights-commission-act-1999repealed/schedule-3/paragraph-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-rights-commission-act-1999repealed/schedule-3/paragraph-24.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1999/17",
  "legislation_title": "Disability Rights Commission Act 1999(repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-rights-commission-act-1999repealed",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/24",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A person who—\n(a) deliberately alters, suppresses, conceals or destroys a document to which a notice under paragraph 4 or 21, or an order under paragraph 5 or 21(3), relates; or\n(b) in complying with—\n(i) a notice under paragraph 4 or 21;\n(ii) a non-discrimination notice;\n(iii) an agreement under section 5; or\n(iv) an order of a court under section 5(8) or under any provision of this Schedule,\nmakes any statement which he knows to be false or misleading in a material particular or recklessly makes a statement which is false or misleading in a material particular,\nis guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.\n(2) Proceedings for an offence under this paragraph may (without prejudice to any jurisdiction exercisable apart from this sub-paragraph) be instituted—\n(a) against any person at any place at which he has an office or other place of business;\n(b) against an individual at any place where he resides, or at which he is for the time being.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/17/schedule/3/paragraph/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:21:56.334422+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."
}