{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-agencies-act-1973/section-3B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-agencies-act-1973/section-3B.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1973/35",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Agencies Act 1973",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-agencies-act-1973",
  "path": "section/3B",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3B",
  "heading": "Enforcement.",
  "text": "Any person who, without reasonable excuse, fails to comply with a prohibition order shall be guilty of an offence and liable —\n(a) on conviction on indictment, to a fine;\n(b) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 3B inserted (3.1.1995) by 1994 c. 40, s. 35, Sch. 10 Pt. I para. 1(3); S.I. 1994/3188, arts. 2, 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 3B substituted (6.4.2009) by Employment Act 2008 (c. 24), ss. 15, 22(1)(e)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1973/35/section/3B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:39:32.689837+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."
}