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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-equality-disability-etc-northern-ireland-order-2000/schedule-1/paragraph-24",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2000/0110989198",
  "legislation_title": "Equality (Disability, etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-equality-disability-etc-northern-ireland-order-2000",
  "path": "schedule/1/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 Article 7; or\n(iv) an order of a court under Article 7(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, is 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 anindividual at anyplace where he resides, or at whichhe is for the time being.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2000/0110989198/schedule/1/paragraph/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:19:04.592221+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."
}