{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-gateway-port-harbour-empowerment-order-2008/article-48",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-gateway-port-harbour-empowerment-order-2008/article-48.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1261",
  "legislation_title": "The London Gateway Port Harbour Empowerment Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-gateway-port-harbour-empowerment-order-2008",
  "path": "article/48",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Obstruction of officers",
  "text": "(1) Any person who—\n(a) intentionally obstructs an officer of the Harbour Authority who is acting in pursuance of this Order;\n(b) without reasonable excuse fails to comply with a requirement properly made by such an officer; or\n(c) without reasonable excuse fails to give such an officer any information or produce any document which he may require for the purpose of performance of his functions,\nshall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(2) Any person who, in giving such information as is mentioned in sub-paragraph (c) of paragraph (1), makes a statement which he knows to be false, shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.\n(3) Nothing in paragraph (1) applies to the Harbour Master or to any person acting under the authority of the Harbour Master or the PLA.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 48 in force at 16.5.2008, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1261/article/48",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:31:08.460716+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."
}