{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-registrar-identity-verification-and-authorised-corporate-service-providers-regulations-2024/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-registrar-identity-verification-and-authorised-corporate-service-providers-regulations-2024/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2024/9780348261905",
  "legislation_title": "The Registrar (Identity Verification and Authorised Corporate Service Providers) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-registrar-identity-verification-and-authorised-corporate-service-providers-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Offences in relation to record keeping",
  "text": "(1) It is an offence for a person to fail, without reasonable excuse, to comply with regulation 15.\n(2) Where the offence is committed by a firm, every officer of the firm who is in default also commits the offence.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under this regulation is liable—\n(a) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or a fine (or both);\n(b) on summary conviction—\n(i) in England and Wales, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding the general limit in a magistrates’ court or a fine (or both);\n(ii) in Scotland, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum (or both) and, for continued contravention, a daily default fine not exceeding one-fifth of the statutory maximum;\n(iii) in Northern Ireland, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum (or both) and, for continued contravention, a daily default fine not exceeding one-fifth of the statutory maximum.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2024/9780348261905/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:40:58.641642+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."
}