{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-organised-crime-and-police-act-2005/section-90",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-organised-crime-and-police-act-2005/section-90.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2005/15",
  "legislation_title": "Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-organised-crime-and-police-act-2005",
  "path": "section/90",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "90",
  "heading": "Protection from liability",
  "text": "(1) This section applies if—\n(a) arrangements are made for the protection of a person under section 82(1), and\n(b) the protected person assumes a new identity in pursuance of the arrangements.\n(2) No proceedings (whether civil or criminal) may be brought against a person to whom this section applies in respect of the making by him of a false or misleading representation if the representation—\n(a) relates to the protected person, and\n(b) is made solely for the purpose of ensuring that the arrangements made for him to assume a new identity are, or continue to be, effective.\n(3) The persons to whom this section applies are—\n(a) the protected person;\n(b) a person who is associated with the protected person;\n(c) a protection provider;\n(d) a person involved in the making of arrangements under section 82(1) or in the implementation, variation or cancellation of such arrangements.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 90 in force at 1.4.2006 except to the extent that it extends to S. by S.I. 2005/1521, art. 5(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 90 in force at 1.4.2006 for S. by S.S.I. 2006/166, art. 2(1)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/15/section/90",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:35:19.224345+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."
}