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Paragraph 6 Penalty for obstructing construction of works.

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Any person who wilfully obstructs a person engaged by or under authority of the undertakers in setting out the line or site of any authorised works, or knowingly pulls up any peg or stake driven into the ground for the purpose of setting out such line or site or knowingly defaces or destroys anything made or erected for that purpose, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding F1level 1 on the standard scale.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), ss. 289G, 457A

Notes on Schedule 4

Modifications

C1

Sch. 4 extended by Gas Act 1986 (c. 44, SIF 44:2), s. 3, Sch. 7 para. 2 (1) (xxxviii), Sch. 8 para. 33

C2

Sch. 4: power to apply conferred (1.10.1991) by Natural Heritage (Scotland) Act 1991 (c. 28, SIF 46:1, 130), s. 20(10), Sch. 7 para. 5(1)(b)