{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996/section-38",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996/section-38.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/52",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996",
  "path": "section/38",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "38",
  "heading": "Penalty for obstruction of person exercising power of entry.",
  "text": "(1) It is an offence for a registered social landlord or any of its officers or employees to obstruct a person authorised under section 37 (powers of entry) to enter premises in the performance of anything which he is authorised by that section to do.\n(2) A person who commits such an offence is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(3) Proceedings for such an offence may be brought only by or with the consent of the Welsh Ministers or the Director of Public Prosecutions.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Pt. I substituted (1.4.2010) by Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (c. 17), ss. 61(7), 325(1); S.I. 2010/862, art. 2 (with Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 38 extended (16.9.1996) by S.I. 1996/2402, art. 3, Sch. para. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/52/section/38",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:29:46.595645+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."
}