{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1996/section-82",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1996/section-82.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/14",
  "legislation_title": "Reserve Forces Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1996",
  "path": "section/82",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "82",
  "heading": "Offences in connection with regulations under section 78 or 79.",
  "text": "(1) Any person who fails without reasonable excuse to provide information, in connection with the lapse of a deferral, entitlement to be released or discharged or an exemption, which he is required to provide under regulations under section 78 or 79 is guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale (or both).\n(2) Any person who—\n(a) in connection with an application under regulations under section 78 or 79, or\n(b) in connection with the lapse of a deferral, determination of entitlement to release or discharge or an exemption granted under those regulations,\nknowingly or recklessly provides information which is false or misleading in a material particular is guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale (or both).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2003/44",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice Act 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/14/section/82",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:32:19.577483+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."
}