{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-standards-act-1999/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-standards-act-1999/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1999/28",
  "legislation_title": "Food Standards Act 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-standards-act-1999",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Offences relating to sections 13 and 14.",
  "text": "(1) A person who—\n(a) intentionally obstructs a person exercising powers under section 14(4)(a), (b) or (c);\n(b) fails without reasonable excuse to comply with any requirement imposed under section 13(1) or section 14(4)(d); or\n(c) in purported compliance with such a requirement furnishes information which he knows to be false or misleading in any material particular or recklessly furnishes information which is false or misleading in any material particular;\nis guilty of an offence.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/28/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:21:47.601294+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."
}