C1Part I General
Supplemental
5BF1Offences relating to information
1
A person commits an offence if he fails without reasonable excuse to comply with a notice served on him under section 5A.
2
A person commits an offence if, in response to a notice served on him under section 5A—
a
he gives information which is false in a material particular, and
b
when he does so, he knows or ought reasonably to know that the information is false.
3
If an offence under this section committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of—
a
a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or
b
a person purporting to act in any such capacity,
he, as well as the body corporate, is guilty of that offence and liable to be proceeded against accordingly.
4
The reference in subsection (3) to a director must be construed in accordance with section 331(2) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.
5
A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.
Pt. 1 applied (with modifications) (12.8.2012) by The Hinkley Point (Temporary Jetty) (Land Acquisition) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1924), arts. 1, 5, 10