{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-320",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-320.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/68",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985",
  "path": "section/320",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "320",
  "heading": "Penalty for obstruction.",
  "text": "(1) It is a summary offence intentionally to obstruct an officer of the local housing authority or of the Secretary of State, or any person authorised to enter premises in pursuance of this Part, in the performance of anything which he is by this Part required or authorised to do.\n(2) A person committing such an offence is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word inserted by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 61), s. 165(1)(b), Sch. 9 Pt. II para. 40(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 61), s. 165(1)(b), Sch. 9 Pt. II para. 40(2)"
    }
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/68/section/320",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:47.243826+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}