{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/storage-of-carbon-dioxide-licensing-etc-scotland-regulations-2011/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/storage-of-carbon-dioxide-licensing-etc-scotland-regulations-2011/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2011/24",
  "legislation_title": "The Storage of Carbon Dioxide (Licensing etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/storage-of-carbon-dioxide-licensing-etc-scotland-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) It is an offence for a person—\n(a) wilfully to obstruct an inspector in the exercise of the powers or duties conferred on the inspector by these Regulations;\n(b) without reasonable excuse to fail to comply with a requirement imposed under Schedule 3 or to prevent another person from complying with such a requirement; or\n(c) to make a statement—\n(i) which that person knows to be false or misleading in a material particular; or\n(ii) recklessly and which is false or misleading in a material particular,\nwhere that statement is made in purported compliance with any requirement imposed under Schedule 3 for the supply of information to an inspector.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (1) 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.\n(3) Where—\n(a) an offence under paragraph (1) has been committed by a body corporate or a Scottish partnership; and\n(b) it is proved that the offence was committed with the consent or connivance of—\n(i) a relevant individual; or\n(ii) an individual purporting to act in the capacity of a relevant individual,\nthe individual as well as the body corporate or Scottish partnership is guilty of the offence and is liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.\n(4) In paragraph (3), “relevant individual” means—\n(a) in relation to a body corporate—\n(i) a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body;\n(ii) where the affairs of the body are managed by its members, a member;\n(b) in relation to a Scottish partnership, a partner.\n(5) Where the commission by any person of an offence under this regulation is due to the act or default of some other person, that other person may be charged with and convicted of the offence by virtue of this paragraph whether or not proceedings for the offence are taken against the first-mentioned person.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 14-18 and cross-heading inserted (23.12.2011) by The Storage of Carbon Dioxide (Licensing etc.) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/457), regs. 1, 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2011/24/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:51:52.495405+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."
}