{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-agency-inland-waterways-order-2010/article-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-agency-inland-waterways-order-2010/article-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/699",
  "legislation_title": "The Environment Agency (Inland Waterways) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-agency-inland-waterways-order-2010",
  "path": "article/18",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) Any person who contravenes or attempts to contravene or knowingly allows a contravention of—\n(a) the requirements of article 4(1) (requirement for registration);\n(b) the terms of any exemption granted under article 4(3) (requirement for registration), article 11(3) (insurance), article 12(6) (construction and equipment standards) or article 15(6) (additional requirements for commercial vessels);\n(c) the requirements of article 11(1) (insurance);\n(d) the requirements of article 12(4) (construction and equipment standards);\n(e) the requirements of article 14(1) (inspection of vessels); or\n(f) the requirements of article 15(4) (additional requirements for commercial vessels),\nis guilty of an offence.\n(2) Any person who fails, without reasonable cause, proof of which lies on that person, to give or produce any information demanded under article 17 (power to require information, etc.), or in giving or producing it makes any statement which that person knows to be false in a material particular, or recklessly makes any statement which is false in a material particular, is guilty of an offence.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2) a person is to be treated as making a false statement if that person produces, furnishes, signs or otherwise makes use of a document that contains a false statement.\n(4) A person guilty of an offence under this article is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 18 in force at 6.4.2010, see art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/699/article/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:48:43.437003+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."
}