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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/football-governance-act-2025/schedule-9/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/football-governance-act-2025/schedule-9/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/21",
  "legislation_title": "Football Governance Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/football-governance-act-2025",
  "path": "schedule/9/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Censure statements",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where the IFR determines (whether as a result of an investigation or otherwise) that a person (“P”) has, without reasonable excuse, committed a relevant infringement.\n(2) The IFR may prepare and publish a censure statement.\n(3) A censure statement is a statement that—\n(a) states the identity of P,\n(b) states the relevant infringement that the IFR has determined that P has committed,\n(c) explains why the IFR determined that P has committed the relevant infringement, and\n(d) explains why the IFR considers it appropriate to publish a statement under this paragraph in respect of P.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 9 para. 4 in force at Royal Assent for specified purposes, see s. 100(2)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 9 para. 4 in force at 12.12.2025 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2025/1286, reg. 2(1)(c)(ii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/21/schedule/9/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:39:55.233089+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."
}