{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2004/section-102A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2004/section-102A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/35",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2004",
  "path": "section/102A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "102A",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) This section applies in respect of proceedings before a tribunal in relation to a decision of the Regulator.\n(2) A person is guilty of an offence if that person, without reasonable excuse, refuses or fails—\n(a) to attend following the issue of a summons by the tribunal; or\n(b) to give evidence.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (2) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.\n(4) A person is guilty of an offence if that person, without reasonable excuse—\n(a) alters, suppresses, conceals or destroys a document which that person is or is liable to be required to produce for the purposes of proceedings before the tribunal; or\n(b) refuses to produce a document when so required.\n(5) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (4) is liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum;\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or a fine or both.\n(6) In this section “document” includes information recorded in any form and, in relation to information recorded otherwise than in a legible form, references to its production include references to producing a copy of the information in a legible form, or in a form from which it can readily be produced in a legible form.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 102A inserted (E.W.S.) (6.4.2010) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/22), art. 1(2)(e), Sch. 2 para. 79 (with Sch. 5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/35/section/102A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:16:45.114281+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}