{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gangmasters-licensing-act-2004/section-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gangmasters-licensing-act-2004/section-18.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/11",
  "legislation_title": "Gangmasters (Licensing) Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gangmasters-licensing-act-2004",
  "path": "section/18",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Obstruction of officers",
  "text": "(1) A person commits an offence who—\n(a) intentionally obstructs an enforcement officer ... who is acting in the exercise of his functions under this Act ..., or\n(b) without reasonable cause, fails to comply with any requirement made of him by such an officer who is so acting.\n(2) A person who, in giving any information which is required of him by an enforcement officer ..., makes a statement which is false in a material particular commits an offence.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) on summary conviction in ... Northern Ireland, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or to both.\n...",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(1)(a) omitted (7.4.2026) by virtue of Employment Rights Act 2025 (c. 36), s. 159(3), Sch. 10 para. 39(2)(a) (with s. 147, Sch. 11); S.I. 2026/323, reg. 4(1)(55)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(1)(a) omitted (7.4.2026) by virtue of Employment Rights Act 2025 (c. 36), s. 159(3), Sch. 10 para. 39(2)(b) (with s. 147, Sch. 11); S.I. 2026/323, reg. 4(1)(55)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(2) omitted (7.4.2026) by virtue of Employment Rights Act 2025 (c. 36), s. 159(3), Sch. 10 para. 39(3) (with s. 147, Sch. 11); S.I. 2026/323, reg. 4(1)(55)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 18(3)(a) omitted (7.4.2026) by virtue of Employment Rights Act 2025 (c. 36), s. 159(3), Sch. 10 para. 39(4)(a) (with s. 147, Sch. 11); S.I. 2026/323, reg. 4(1)(55)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(3)(b) omitted (7.4.2026) by virtue of Employment Rights Act 2025 (c. 36), s. 159(3), Sch. 10 para. 39(4)(b) (with s. 147, Sch. 11); S.I. 2026/323, reg. 4(1)(55)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(3) omitted (7.4.2026) by virtue of Employment Rights Act 2025 (c. 36), s. 159(3), Sch. 10 para. 39(4)(c) (with s. 147, Sch. 11); S.I. 2026/323, reg. 4(1)(55)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 18 in force at 1.4.2005 by S.I. 2005/447, art. 2(g)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/11/section/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:18.496826+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."
}