{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-miscellaneous-provisions-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-5B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-miscellaneous-provisions-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-5B.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1981/839",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-miscellaneous-provisions-northern-ireland-order-1981",
  "path": "article/5B",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5B",
  "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": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1994 c. 40"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 5B substituted (3.8.2010) by Employment Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 (c. 12), ss. 1, 8(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1981/839/article/5B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:51:55.566338+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."
}