{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ship-and-port-facility-security-regulations-2004/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ship-and-port-facility-security-regulations-2004/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1495",
  "legislation_title": "The Ship and Port Facility (Security) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ship-and-port-facility-security-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Offences and penalties",
  "text": "(1) A person who—\n(a) intentionally obstructs a duly authorised officer acting in the exercise of a power conferred upon him by the EC Regulation or these Regulations, or\n(b) falsely pretends to be a duly authorised officer,\ncommits an offence.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (1)(a) is liable —\n(a) on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (1)(b) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 12(2)(a) substituted (1.7.2005) by The Ship and Port Facility (Security) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1434), regs. 1, 2(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1495/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:24:13.490930+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."
}