(1)It is an offence for a person to—
(a)intentionally obstruct an officer of a local weights and measures authority who is exercising powers conferred by schedule 2,
(b)intentionally fail to comply with any requirement made of the person by an officer of a local weights and measures authority under paragraph 7 or 10 of schedule 2,
(c)fail, without reasonable cause, to give an officer of a local weights and measures authority any other assistance or information which the officer may reasonably require of him for the purposes of the exercise of the officer's powers under schedule 2.
(2)It is an offence for a person, in giving any information which is required of the person by virtue of subsection (1)(c)—
(a)to make any statement which the person knows is false in a material particular, or
(b)recklessly to make a statement which is false in a material particular.
(3)A person who commits an offence under this section is liable, on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale (or both).