This section sets out the criminal offences of obstructing and impersonating authorised officers of the Building Safety Regulator. These offences are designed to protect the effective functioning and decision-making of the Building Safety Regulator by ensuring individuals do not impede the Building Safety Regulator’s operations.
	Each of the offences has a different penalty to reflect the respective gravity of the offence.
	The offences of obstructing and impersonating an authorised officer will be triable only in the magistrates’ court, with a maximum fine for obstruction of level 3 on the standard scale (currently £1000) (mirroring the offence of obstructing a police officer in section 89(2) of the Police Act 1996), while impersonation will carry an unlimited fine (mirroring the offence of impersonating a police officer in section 90(1) of the Police Act 1996).
Part 2: The Regulator and its functions Enforcement Section 23: Authorised officers: offences Effect