{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-workers-obstruction-act-2006/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-workers-obstruction-act-2006/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/39",
  "legislation_title": "Emergency Workers (Obstruction) Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-workers-obstruction-act-2006",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Provisions supplementary to sections 1 and 2",
  "text": "(1) A person may be convicted of the offence under section 1 or 2 of this Act notwithstanding that it is—\n(a) effected by means other than physical means; or\n(b) effected by action directed only at any vehicle, vessel, apparatus, equipment or other thing or any animal used or to be used by a person referred to in that section.\n(2) For the purposes of sections 1 and 2 of this Act, circumstances to which a person is responding are to be taken to be emergency circumstances if the person believes and has reasonable grounds for believing they are or may be emergency circumstances.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 3 in force at 20.2.2007 by S.I. 2007/153, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/39/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:14:01.419645+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."
}