{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-performance-of-buildings-scotland-regulations-2025/regulation-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-performance-of-buildings-scotland-regulations-2025/regulation-31.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2025/417",
  "legislation_title": "The Energy Performance of Buildings (Scotland) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-performance-of-buildings-scotland-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/31",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Offences relating to enforcement officers",
  "text": "(1) A person who obstructs an authorised officer of an enforcement authority acting in pursuance of regulation 22 is guilty of an offence.\n(2) A person who, not being an authorised officer of an enforcement authority, purports to act as such in pursuance of regulation 22 or 23 is guilty of an offence.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under this regulation is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 31 in force at 30.4.2028, see reg. 1(2) (as amended by S.S.I. 2026/223, reg. 3(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "ssi/2025/417",
      "affecting_title": "The Energy Performance of Buildings (Scotland) Regulations 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2025/417/regulation/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-10T03:33:21.858595+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."
}