{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipe-lines-act-1962/section-46",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipe-lines-act-1962/section-46.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/10-11/58",
  "legislation_title": "Pipe-Lines Act 1962",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipe-lines-act-1962",
  "path": "section/46",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "Penalties for uttering false documents and giving false information.",
  "text": "A person who—\n(a) sends to the Secretary of State an application for the grant of a pipe-line construction authorisation or the making of a compulsory purchase or rights order, being an application which he knows to be false in a material particular, or recklessly sends to the Secretary of State such an application which is so false; or\n(b) in purported compliance with section . . . , thirty-six or thirty-eight of this Act gives a notice which he knows to be false in a material particular or recklessly gives notice which is so false; or\n(c) in purported compliance with subsection (1) of section thirty-five of this Act or subsection (2) of section thirty-seven thereof sends, deposits or furnishes a document which he knows to be false in a material particular or gives any information which he knows to be so false or recklessly sends, deposits or furnishes a document which is so false or recklessly gives any information which is so false;\nshall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable—\n(i) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to both such fine and such imprisonment;\n(ii) on conviction on indictment, to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to both a fine and such imprisonment.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 46(a) substituted (3.4.1999) by S.I. 1999/742, art. 2, Sch. para. 14(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by S.I. 1974/1986, Sch. 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 46(c) substituted (3.4.1999) by S.I. 1999/742, art. 2, Sch. para. 14(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/10-11/58/section/46",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:01:32.285329+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."
  }
}