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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reservoirs-act-northern-ireland-2015/section-96",
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  "legislation": "nia/2015/8",
  "legislation_title": "Reservoirs Act (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reservoirs-act-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "section/96",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "96",
  "heading": "Offence: preventing or obstructing entry",
  "text": "(1) Any person who wilfully prevents or obstructs another person entitled to enter land by virtue of section 93 (whether or not by virtue of a warrant under section 94) commits an offence.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1)—\n(a) in relation to a controlled reservoir which is, at the time the offence is committed, a high-consequence reservoir is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale,\n(b) in relation to any other controlled reservoir is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2015/8/section/96",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:20:11.423522+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."
}