{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-water-industry-designated-codes-appeals-to-the-competition-and-markets-authority-regulations-2017/regulation-17",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2017/9780111153871",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Industry Designated Codes (Appeals to the Competition and Markets Authority) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-water-industry-designated-codes-appeals-to-the-competition-and-markets-authority-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Enforcement of requirements in relation to evidence etc.",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where a person (“P”)—\n(a) fails to comply with a notice or other requirement issued or imposed under regulation 14, 15 or 16;\n(b) in complying with a notice under regulation 16, makes a statement that is false in a material particular; or\n(c) in providing information verified by a statement of truth required by appeal rules, provides information that is false in a material particular.\n(2) An authorised member of the CMA may certify to the High Court—\n(a) the failure;\n(b) the fact that P has made a false statement in circumstances described in paragraph (1)(b); or\n(c) the fact that P has provided false information in circumstances described in paragraph (1)(c).\n(3) The High Court may—\n(a) inquire into the failure or act certified to it under paragraph (2); and\n(b) punish P as if P had been guilty of contempt of court if it is satisfied, after having heard any witness against or on behalf of P and any statement in P’s defence, that—\n(i) the certified failure or act took place; and\n(ii) P did not have a reasonable excuse for the failure or act.\n(4) Where P is a body corporate, the High Court may punish any director or other officer of that body either instead of or in addition to dealing with the body corporate.\n(5) A person who wilfully alters, suppresses or destroys a document that the person has been required to produce under regulation 14 is guilty of an offence and is liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to a fine;\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": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2017/9780111153871/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:06:57.023418+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."
}