{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-deeds-act-northern-ireland-1970/section-18",
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  "legislation": "apni/1970/25",
  "legislation_title": "Registration of Deeds Act (Northern Ireland) 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-deeds-act-northern-ireland-1970",
  "path": "section/18",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Procuring registration of false document.",
  "text": "Any person who procures or attempts to procure the registration under the Registration of Deeds Acts of any document—\n(a) knowing the same to be false in any material particular; or\n(b) knowing any signature thereon to be false;\nshall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable—\n(i)on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale, or to both; and\n(ii)on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to an unlimited fine, or to both.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1984 NI 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1970/25/section/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:29:32.029083+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."
}