{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008/schedule-11/paragraph-19",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/14",
  "legislation_title": "Health and Social Care Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008",
  "path": "schedule/11/paragraph/19",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For section 63 of the 1984 Act substitute—\n“Offence of wilful obstruction\n63 (1) A person commits an offence if the person wilfully obstructs any person acting in the execution of a provision of Part 3 or 4 or this Part, or of any regulations, order or warrant made or issued under such a provision.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) is liable on summary conviction—\n(a) in the case of an offence of wilfully obstructing a person in the execution of a provision of Part 4 or of any regulations made under a provision of that Part, to a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale, and\n(b) in any other case, to a fine not exceeding £20,000.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 11 para. 19 in force at 6.4.2010 for E. by S.I. 2010/708, art. 6(e) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 11 para. 19 in force at 26.7.2010 for W. by S.I. 2010/1547, art. 2(e) (with Sch. 1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/14/schedule/11/paragraph/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:00.738432+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."
}