{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-northern-ireland-1972/section-123",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-northern-ireland-1972/section-123.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1972/9",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-northern-ireland-1972",
  "path": "section/123",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "123",
  "heading": "Penalty for destroying notices.",
  "text": "A person who wilfully destroys, tampers with, pulls down, injures or defaces—\n(a) any board on or to which any bye-law, notice or other matter put up by the authority of the Ministry or of a council is inscribed or affixed; or\n(b) any advertisement, placard, bill or notice put up by or under the direction of a council;\nshall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1965 c.13 (NI); 1984 NI 11"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1984 NI 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 23-27, 31, 48, 123, 126, 127 applied (with modifications) (1.7.2006) by Fire and Rescue Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1254 (N.I. 9)), arts. 1(3), 3(3), Sch. 1 para. 12 (with arts. 49, 62); S.R. 2006/257, art. 2(a)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1972/9/section/123",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:29:08.839580+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."
}