{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-northern-ireland-order-2005/article-96A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-northern-ireland-order-2005/article-96A.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/2005/255",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-northern-ireland-order-2005",
  "path": "article/96A",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "96A",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) This Article 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 paragraph (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 paragraph (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 Article “ 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": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 96A inserted (6.4.2010) by Pensions Regulator Tribunal (Transfer of Functions) Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 (c. 4), ss. 3(1), 5(2), Sch. 1 para. 17 (with transitional and saving in Sch. 2); S.R. 2010/101, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2005/255/article/96A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:39:49.445550+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."
}