{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-descriptions-act-1968/section-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-descriptions-act-1968/section-21.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/29",
  "legislation_title": "Trade Descriptions Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-descriptions-act-1968",
  "path": "section/21",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Accessories to offences committed abroad.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) Any person who, in the United Kingdom, assists in or induces the commission outside the United Kingdom of an act which, if committed in the United Kingdom, would be an offence under section 12 of this Act shall be guilty of an offence.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 21(1)(2) repealed (26.5.2008) by The Consumer Protection for Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1277), reg. 30(1)(3), Sch. 2 para. 8(f), Sch. 4 Pt. 1 (with savings in reg. 28(2)(3))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/29/section/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:54:22.375175+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."
}