{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/interpretation-act-northern-ireland-1954/schedule-A1/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/interpretation-act-northern-ireland-1954/schedule-A1/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1954/33",
  "legislation_title": "Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/interpretation-act-northern-ireland-1954",
  "path": "schedule/A1/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "Any person who—\n(a) refuses or wilfully neglects to attend in obedience to a notice under paragraph 4, or to give evidence; or\n(b) wilfully alters, suppresses, conceals or destroys or refuses to produce any book or document which he may be required to produce by any such notice; or\n(c) refuses or deliberately neglects to furnish any information which he is required to furnish under paragraph 4(1)(b);\nshall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "2005 c.12"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. A1 para. 6 applied (with modifications) (24.11.2014) by The Health and Social Care (Disciplinary Procedures) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 (S.R. 2014/267), regs. 1(1), 6(15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Sch. A1 paras. 6, 7 applied (with modifications) (1.4.2016) by The Health and Social Care (Disciplinary Procedures) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/104), regs. 1(1), 6(14)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1954/33/schedule/A1/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:33:32.200749+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."
}