{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-reform-act-1969/section-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-reform-act-1969/section-24.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1969/46",
  "legislation_title": "Family Law Reform Act 1969",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-reform-act-1969",
  "path": "section/24",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Penalty for personating another, etc., for purpose of providing bodily sample.",
  "text": "If for the purpose of providing a bodily sample for a test required to give effect to a direction under section 20 of this Act any person personates another, or proffers a child knowing that it is not the child named in the direction, he shall be liable—\n(a) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or\n(b) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding £400.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 24 substituted (1.4.2001) by Family Law Reform Act 1987 (c. 42, SIF 49:7), s. 33(1), Sch. 2 para. 25; S.I. 2001/777, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1969/46/section/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:52:03.132204+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."
}