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Changes over time for: Section 297


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Highways Act 1980, Section 297 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 28 February 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.

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297 Power of highway authority or council to require information as to ownership of land.E+W
(1)A highway authority or a council may, for the purpose of enabling them to discharge or exercise any of their functions under this Act, require the occupier of any premises and any person who, either directly or indirectly, receives rent in respect of any premises, to state in writing the nature of his own interest therein and the name and address of any other person known to him as having an interest therein, whether as freeholder, mortgagee, lessee or otherwise.
(2)Any person who, having been required in pursuance of this section to give any information, fails to give that information is guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding [level 3 on the standard scale].
(3)Any person who, having been so required to give any information, knowingly makes any mis-statement in respect thereof is guilty of an offence and liable—
(a)on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the prescribed sum within the meaning of section 32(9) of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (£1,000 or such other sum as may be fixed by order under section 143(1) of that Act); or
(b)on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to a fine, or both.
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