{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-control-of-disease-act-1984/section-63",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-control-of-disease-act-1984/section-63.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/22",
  "legislation_title": "Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-control-of-disease-act-1984",
  "path": "section/63",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "63",
  "heading": "Offence of wilful obstruction.",
  "text": "(1) A person commits an offence if the person wilfully obstructs any person acting in the execution of a provision of Part 3 or 4 or this Part, or of any regulations, order or warrant made or issued under such a provision.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) is liable on summary conviction—\n(a) in the case of an offence of wilfully obstructing a person in the execution of a provision of Part 4 or of any regulations made under a provision of that Part, to a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale, and\n(b) in any other case, to a fine.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 63 substituted (6.4.2010 for E., 26.7.2010 for W.) by Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c. 14), s. 170(3)(4), Sch. 11 para. 19; S.I. 2010/708, art. 6(e) (with Sch. 2); S.I. 2010/1547, art. 2(e) (with Sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 63(2)(b) substituted (12.3.2015) by The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Fines on Summary Conviction) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/664), reg. 1(1), Sch. 4 para. 13(3) (with reg. 5(1))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/22/section/63",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:03:29.143511+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."
}