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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-single-use-plastic-products-wales-act-2023/section-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-single-use-plastic-products-wales-act-2023/section-14.json",
  "legislation": "asc/2023/2",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Act 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-single-use-plastic-products-wales-act-2023",
  "path": "section/14",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Offence of obstruction etc. of officers",
  "text": "(1) A person who intentionally obstructs an authorised officer of a local authority exercising functions under sections 9 to 13 commits an offence.\n(2) Any person who without reasonable cause fails to comply with a requirement under section 13(1)(b) or (d) or 13(4)(b) commits an offence.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(4) Where a person does not answer any question or produce any document that the person would be entitled to refuse to answer or produce in or for the purposes of proceedings in a court in Wales or in England (see section 13(6)), this does not amount to obstruction under this section.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 14 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 22(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 14 in force at 30.10.2023 by S.I. 2023/1149, art. 2(l)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2023/2/section/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:51.849728+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."
}