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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-wales-act-2014/section-38",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-wales-act-2014/section-38.json",
  "legislation": "anaw/2014/7",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Wales) Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-wales-act-2014",
  "path": "section/38",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "38",
  "heading": "Enforcement of powers to obtain information",
  "text": "(1) A person who fails to do anything required of that person by a notice under section 37 commits an offence.\n(2) In proceedings against a person for an offence under subsection (1) it is a defence that the person had a reasonable excuse for failing to comply with the notice.\n(3) A person who commits an offence under subsection (1) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.\n(4) A person who intentionally alters, suppresses or destroys any document which the person has been required to produce by a notice under section 37 commits an offence.\n(5) A person who commits an offence under subsection (4) is liable on summary conviction to a fine.\n(6) In this section “document” includes information recorded otherwise than in legible form, and in relation to information so recorded—\n(a) the reference to the production of a document is a reference to the production of a copy of the information in legible form, and\n(b) the reference to suppressing a document includes a reference to destroying the means of reproducing the information.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 38 in force at 23.11.2015 by S.I. 2015/1826, art. 2(t)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2014/7/section/38",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:18:23.296415+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."
}