{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008/section-225F",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008/section-225F.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/17",
  "legislation_title": "Housing and Regeneration Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008",
  "path": "section/225F",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "225F",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) A registered provider, or an officer of a registered provider, commits an offence if the provider or officer obstructs an authorised person—\n(a) in exercising a power under section 225C or 225D, or\n(b) in exercising a power under section 225B, where the authorised person has entered the premises to take emergency remedial action under the power in section 225C.\n(2) A person commits an offence if the person obstructs an authorised person—\n(a) in exercising a power conferred by a warrant under section 225E, or\n(b) in exercising a power under section 225B, where the authorised person has entered the premises to take emergency remedial action under a warrant under section 225E.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.\n(4) Proceedings for an offence under this section may be brought only by or with the consent of—\n(a) the regulator, or\n(b) the Director of Public Prosecutions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 225A-225H and cross-heading inserted (1.4.2024) by Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 (c. 36), ss. 32, 46(3); S.I. 2024/437, reg. 2(s)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/17/section/225F",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:11:57.313988+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."
}