{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-industry-act-1991/schedule-6/paragraph-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-industry-act-1991/schedule-6/paragraph-12.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/56",
  "legislation_title": "Water Industry Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-industry-act-1991",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "A person who intentionally obstructs another person acting in the exercise of any right or power to which this Part of this Schedule applies shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 12 applied (23.12.2003) by The United Utilities Water plc (Ullswater) (Drought) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/3341), {art. 2}"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Sch. 6 Pt. II para. 12 applied (temp. from 3.10.1995 to 29.2.1996) by S.I. 1995/2585, art. 2(1)(5)Sch. 6 Pt. II para. 12 applied (6.12.1995) by S.I. 1995/3179, art. 2(5)Sch. 6 Pt. II para. 12 applied (17.2.1996) by S.I. 1996/367, art. 2(4)Sch. 6 Pt. II para. 12 applied (temp. from 4.4.1996 to 3.10.1996) by S.I. 1996/1079, art. 2(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted for para. (a)(b)",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2003/44",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice Act 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2003/44",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice Act 2003"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/56/schedule/6/paragraph/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:34:46.295560+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."
}