{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-administration-order-rules-2001/article-9.18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-administration-order-rules-2001/article-9.18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3352",
  "legislation_title": "The Railway Administration Order Rules 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-administration-order-rules-2001",
  "path": "article/9.18",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9.18",
  "heading": "False claim of status as creditor",
  "text": "(1) Where the Rules provide for creditors of a protected railway company a right to inspect any documents, whether on the court’s file or in the hands of the special railway administrator or other person, it is an offence for a person, with the intention of obtaining a sight of documents which he has not under the Rules any right to inspect, falsely to claim a status which would entitle him to inspect them.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under this Rule is liable—\n(a) in summary proceedings, to a maximum of six months' imprisonment or a fine of the statutory maximum, or both;\n(b) on indictment, to two years' imprisonment or a fine, or both.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3352/article/9.18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:27:37.388783+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."
}