{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-market-integrity-and-transparency-enforcement-etc-regulations-2013/regulation-46",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-market-integrity-and-transparency-enforcement-etc-regulations-2013/regulation-46.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1389",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity and Gas (Market Integrity and Transparency) (Enforcement etc.) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-market-integrity-and-transparency-enforcement-etc-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/46",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies in the case of proceedings before the Tribunal under these Regulations.\n(2) A person (“OP”) is guilty of an offence if OP, without reasonable excuse—\n(a) refuses or fails—\n(i) to attend following the issue of a summons by the Tribunal; or\n(ii) to give evidence; or\n(b) alters, suppresses, conceals or destroys, or refuses to produce a document which OP may be required to produce for the purposes of proceedings before the Tribunal.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (2)(a) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.\n(4) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (2)(b) is liable—\n(a) on summary conviction—\n(i) in England and Wales, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum; and\n(ii) in Scotland, to a fine not exceeding £5,000; or\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or a fine or both.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1389/regulation/46",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:51:53.655058+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."
}