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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-regulator-tribunal-transfer-of-functions-act-northern-ireland-2010/schedule-1/paragraph-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-regulator-tribunal-transfer-of-functions-act-northern-ireland-2010/schedule-1/paragraph-17.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2010/4",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions Regulator Tribunal (Transfer of Functions) Act (Northern Ireland) 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-regulator-tribunal-transfer-of-functions-act-northern-ireland-2010",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/17",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Before Article 97 insert—\n“Offences\n96A (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": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2010/4/schedule/1/paragraph/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:21:10.398715+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."
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