{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/superannuation-and-other-trust-funds-validation-act-1927/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/superannuation-and-other-trust-funds-validation-act-1927/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/17-18/41",
  "legislation_title": "Superannuation and other Trust Funds (Validation) Act 1927",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/superannuation-and-other-trust-funds-validation-act-1927",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Penalties for defaults.",
  "text": "(1) If, in respect of any registered fund, default is made in complying with any of the requirements of this Act relating to accounts and reports, in making application in accordance with the requirements of this Act for the registration of any amendment of the rules or for correction of the register in respect of any change in the address of the fund or in the names and addresses of the trustees, or in sending to the Authority notice of the winding up of the fund, every trustee and the secretary of the fund shall be guilty of an offence under this Act:\nProvided that it shall be a good defence to any proceedings against any person in respect of an offence under this subsection to prove that the default occurred without his consent or connivance and was not facilitated by any neglect on his part.\n(2) If any person lawfully required under this Act by the Authority to furnish any information or explanation which could with reasonable diligence be furnished by him, makes default in complying with any such requirement within fourteen days after written notice thereof has been delivered to him, he shall be guilty of an offence under this Act.\n(3) Any person guilty of an offence under this Act shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale,and, in the case of an offence consisting of a continuing default, to a fine not exceeding £10 for every week in which the default has been continued.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 7 substituted (1.12.2001) by S.I. 2001/3649, arts. 1, 178(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c.48, SIF 39:1), s. 46 and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c.21, SIF 39:1), s. 289G"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by Criminal Justice Act 1967 (c. 80), s. 92, Sch. 3 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P1",
      "text": "S. 7: power to continue conferred (1.7.1992) by Social Security (consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6), ss. 5, 7(2), Sch. 3 Pt. II para. 15"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/17-18/41/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:40:43.366079+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."
}