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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-executive-arrangements-decisions-documents-and-meetings-wales-regulations-2001/regulation-14",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2001/2290",
  "legislation_title": "Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Decisions, Documents and Meetings) (Wales) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-executive-arrangements-decisions-documents-and-meetings-wales-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Part II offences",
  "text": "(1) A person who has custody of a document which is required by regulation 5, 8 or 9 to be available for inspection by the public, commits an offence if, without reasonable excuse that person—\n(a) intentionally obstructs the exercise by any person of a right conferred by these Regulations to inspect, or to make a copy of, the whole or part of a document; or\n(b) refuses to supply a copy of the whole or part of the document in accordance with regulation 13(2).\n(2) A person who commits an offence under paragraph (1) shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2021/357",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Decisions, Documents and Meetings) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted (temp.)",
      "affecting": "wsi/2020/442",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Authorities (Coronavirus) (Meetings) (Wales) Regulations 2020"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2001/2290/regulation/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:16:23.878643+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."
}