{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/invasive-alien-species-enforcement-and-permitting-order-2019/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/invasive-alien-species-enforcement-and-permitting-order-2019/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2019/527",
  "legislation_title": "The Invasive Alien Species (Enforcement and Permitting) Order 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/invasive-alien-species-enforcement-and-permitting-order-2019",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Obstruction and deception",
  "text": "(1) A person who intentionally obstructs an enforcement officer or a designated customs official acting in accordance with the powers conferred in Part 5 is guilty of an offence.\n(2) A person who, without reasonable excuse, fails to give any assistance or information reasonably required by an enforcement officer or a designated customs official acting in accordance with the powers conferred in Part 5 is guilty of an offence.\n(3) A person who, with intent to deceive, pretends to be an enforcement officer or a designated customs official is guilty of an offence.\n(4) A person who furnishes to an enforcement officer or a designated customs official any information knowing it to be false or misleading is guilty of an offence.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 7 in force at 1.12.2019, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/527/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:45:04.678476+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."
}