{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/steel-industry-special-measures-act-2025/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/steel-industry-special-measures-act-2025/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/13",
  "legislation_title": "Steel Industry (Special Measures) Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/steel-industry-special-measures-act-2025",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) A steel undertaking, or a relevant person in relation to such an undertaking, commits an offence if, without reasonable excuse, they fail to comply with a direction under section 2.\n(2) A group undertaking in relation to the steel undertaking commits an offence if it does (or fails to do) anything with the intention of preventing or hindering the steel undertaking, or a relevant person in relation to that undertaking, from complying with a direction under section 2.\n(3) A person commits an offence if, without reasonable excuse, they fail to comply with a requirement imposed on them under section 3(4)(d).\n(4) Where an offence under this section is committed by an undertaking with the consent or connivance of a relevant person in relation to the undertaking, or a person purporting to act in the capacity of a relevant person in relation to the undertaking, the person (as well as the undertaking) commits the offence and is liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.\n(5) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable—\n(a) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or a fine (or both);\n(b) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding the general limit in a magistrates’ court or a fine (or both).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 4 in force at Royal Assent, see s. 10(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/13/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:46:57.419915+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."
}