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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nature-conservation-scotland-act-2004/schedule-3/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nature-conservation-scotland-act-2004/schedule-3/paragraph-8.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2004/6",
  "legislation_title": "Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nature-conservation-scotland-act-2004",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Any person who—\n(a) refuses or fails, without reasonable excuse, to do anything required of the person by a notice given under paragraph 6, or\n(b) intentionally alters, suppresses or destroys a document containing any information which that person has been required by such a notice to produce,\nis guilty of an offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 applied (with modifications) by SI 1994/2716 reg. 19 (as substituted (29.11.2004) by Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c.) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (S.S.I. 2004/475), regs. 1(1), 9 (with regs. 20-21))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 8 in force at 29.11.2004 by S.S.I. 2004/495, art. 2"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2004/6/schedule/3/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:36.867450+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."
}