{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-and-quarries-tips-act-1969/section-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-and-quarries-tips-act-1969/section-26.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1969/10",
  "legislation_title": "Mines And Quarries (Tips) Act 1969",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-and-quarries-tips-act-1969",
  "path": "section/26",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Penalty for obstructing remedial operations and damaging completed works.",
  "text": "(1) Any person who wilfully prevents or interferes with the carrying out of exploratory tests or remedial operations shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(2) Any person who wilfully damages or otherwise interferes with any works completed in the course of remedial operations for the purpose of ensuring the stability of a disused tip shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), ss. 38, 46 and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), ss. 289F, 289G"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), ss. 38, 46 and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), ss. 289F, 289G"
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1969/10/section/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:52:20.641469+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."
}