{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/flood-risk-management-scotland-act-2009/section-47",
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  "legislation": "asp/2009/6",
  "legislation_title": "Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/flood-risk-management-scotland-act-2009",
  "path": "section/47",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Power to obtain information, documents and assistance: offence",
  "text": "(1) A person who—\n(a) refuses or fails, without reasonable excuse, to do anything required of that person by a notice under section 43(5) or 44(3), or\n(b) intentionally alters, suppresses or destroys a document which that person has been required by such notice to produce,\ncommits an offence.\n(2) A person who commits an offence under subsection (1) is liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum,\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 47 in force at 26.11.2009 by S.S.I. 2009/393, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2009/6/section/47",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:38.939244+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."
}