{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1996/section-87",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1996/section-87.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/14",
  "legislation_title": "Reserve Forces Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1996",
  "path": "section/87",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "87",
  "heading": "Offences in connection with claims for payments.",
  "text": "(1) Any person who, in connection with a claim by another person under regulations under section 83, 84 or 84A, fails without reasonable excuse to provide information which he is required to provide by the regulations 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, in connection with a claim under regulations under section 83, 84 or 84A, knowingly 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": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 87(1) substituted (5.9.2014) by Defence Reform Act 2014 (c. 20), s. 50(1), Sch. 7 para. 7 (with s. 49(4), Sch. 7 para. 12(3)); S.I. 2014/2370, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 87(2) substituted (5.9.2014) by Defence Reform Act 2014 (c. 20), s. 50(1), Sch. 7 para. 7 (with s. 49(4), Sch. 7 para. 12(3)); S.I. 2014/2370, art. 3"
    }
  ],
  "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      "type": "words repealed",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/87",
    "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."
}