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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-160",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1981/156",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-northern-ireland-order-1981",
  "path": "article/160",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "160",
  "heading": "Penalty for obstruction",
  "text": "(1) Any person who wilfully obstructs an authorised person in the performance of anything which he is required or authorised to do by this Order shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.\n(2) In this Article “authorised person” means any person (including any officer of the Department or of the Executive) who is required or authorised under this Order to exercise any function.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "2003 NI 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1981/156/article/160",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:52:23.326754+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."
}