{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-reform-northern-ireland-order-1977/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-reform-northern-ireland-order-1977/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1977/1250",
  "legislation_title": "Family Law Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-reform-northern-ireland-order-1977",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Penalty for personating another, etc., for purpose of providing blood sample",
  "text": "If, for the purpose of providing a bodily sample for a test required to give effect to a direction under Article 8, any person personates another, or proffers a child knowing that it is not the child named in the direction, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable—\n(a) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine, or to both;\n(b) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "2001 c. 12 (NI)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1984 NI 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1977/1250/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:53:27.535554+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."
}