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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-administration-rules-northern-ireland-2021/article-149",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2021/257",
  "legislation_title": "The Postal Administration Rules (Northern Ireland) 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-administration-rules-northern-ireland-2021",
  "path": "article/149",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "149",
  "heading": "False claim of status as creditor, etc",
  "text": "(1) Where the Rules provide for creditors or members of a company a right to inspect any documents, whether on the court’s file or in the hands of a postal administrator or other person, it is an offence for a person, with the intention of obtaining a sight of documents which the person has not under the Rules any right to inspect, falsely to claim a status which would entitle the person to inspect them.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under this Rule is liable to imprisonment, or a fine, or both.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2021/257/article/149",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:37:30.830898+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."
}