{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-regulations-1979/regulation-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-regulations-1979/regulation-31.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1979/628",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-regulations-1979",
  "path": "regulation/31",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Breach of regulations",
  "text": "If any person contravenes or fails to comply with any requirement of these regulations (not being a requirement to give notice of an accident or a requirement to submit himself to medical treatment or examination) in respect of which no special penalty is provided, he shall for such offence be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding £200 or, where the offence consists of continuing any such contravention or failure after conviction thereof, £20 for each day on which it is so continued.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 31 substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Amendment Regulations 1982 (S.I. 1982/1241), regs. 1(1), 7(1) (with reg. 7(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/628/regulation/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:17:56.598389+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."
}