{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/political-parties-and-elections-act-2009/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/political-parties-and-elections-act-2009/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2009/12",
  "legislation_title": "Political Parties and Elections Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/political-parties-and-elections-act-2009",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Investigatory powers of Commission",
  "text": "(1) For section 146 of the 2000 Act there is substituted—\n“Investigatory powers of Commission\n146 Schedule 19B makes provision about the investigatory powers of the Commission.”\n(2) Before Schedule 20 to the 2000 Act there is inserted, as Schedule 19B, the Schedule set out in Schedule 1 to this Act.\n(3) In Schedule 20 to the 2000 Act the following entries are inserted at the appropriate place—\n“\nParagraph 13(1) of Schedule 19B (failure to comply with investigation requirement)\nOn summary conviction: Level 5\nParagraph 13(2) of Schedule 19B (intentional obstruction of person exercising investigatory power)\nOn summary conviction: Level 5\nParagraph 13(3) of Schedule 19B (providing false information in purported compliance with investigation requirement)\nOn summary conviction in England and Wales or Scotland: statutory maximum or 12 months\nOn summary conviction in Northern Ireland: statutory maximum or 6 months\nOn indictment: fine or 1 year\n”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 2 in force at 1.12.2010 by S.I. 2010/2866, art. 3(b) (with art. 5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/12/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:11:05.670691+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."
}