{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-infrastructure-act-2025/section-87",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-infrastructure-act-2025/section-87.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/34",
  "legislation_title": "Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-infrastructure-act-2025",
  "path": "section/87",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "87",
  "heading": "Powers of entry: offences",
  "text": "(1) A person who intentionally obstructs a person acting in exercise of a power of entry commits an offence.\n(2) A person who commits an offence under subsection (1) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(3) A person commits an offence if the person discloses confidential information, obtained in the exercise of a power of entry, for purposes other than those for which the power was exercised.\n(4) A person who commits an offence under subsection (3) is liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to a fine;\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or a fine, or both.\n(5) In subsection (3), “confidential information” means information—\n(a) which constitutes a trade secret, or\n(b) the disclosure of which would or would be likely to prejudice the commercial interests of any person.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 87 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 118(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 87 in force at 18.2.2026 by S.I. 2025/1370, reg. 4(1)(l)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/34/section/87",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-04T03:49:26.153791+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."
}