{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poole-harbour-revision-order-2012/article-56",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poole-harbour-revision-order-2012/article-56.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1777",
  "legislation_title": "The Poole Harbour Revision Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poole-harbour-revision-order-2012",
  "path": "article/56",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Obstruction of officers",
  "text": "(1) Any person who—\n(a) intentionally obstructs or threatens an officer of the Commissioners acting in pursuance of this Order or in pursuance of any byelaw, direction or requirement made under this Order; or\n(b) without reasonable excuse fails to comply with a requirement properly made by such an officer; or\n(c) without reasonable excuse fails to provide any information (including their name and address) properly required by such an officer,\nis guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.\n(2) Any person who in giving such information makes a deliberately false statement is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 56 in force at 23.7.2012, see art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1777/article/56",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:26:15.018635+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."
}