{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-insurance-business-regulations-1994/regulation-59",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-insurance-business-regulations-1994/regulation-59.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/1981",
  "legislation_title": "The Friendly Societies (Insurance Business) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-insurance-business-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/59",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "59",
  "heading": "Default in complying with regulations 55 to 58",
  "text": "(1) A society shall be guilty of an offence if it makes default in complying with any of regulations 55 to 58 above.\n(2) A person shall be guilty of an offence if either—\n(a) he causes or permits to be included in a document deposited with the Commission under regulation 57(1) above a statement which he knows to be false in a material particular; or\n(b) he recklessly causes or permits to be so included a statement which is false in a material particular.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under this regulation shall be liable—\n(a) on summary conviction in Great Britain, to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale; and\n(b) on summary conviction in Northern Ireland, to a fine not exceeding £2,000.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1981/regulation/59",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:28:42.756083+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."
}