58 Power of local authorities to obtain information.E+W+S
(1)A local authority may serve on any person a notice requiring him to furnish to the authority, within a period or at times specified in the notice and in a form so specified, any information so specified which the authority reasonably considers that it needs for the purposes of any function conferred on the authority by Part IV or V of this Act (or by this Part of this Act so far as relating to those Parts).
(2)The Secretary of State may by regulations provide for restricting the information which may be required in pursuance of subsection (1) and for determining the form in which the information is to be so required.
(3)Any person who—
(a)fails without reasonable excuse to comply with the requirements of a notice served on him in pursuance of this section; or
(b)in furnishing any information in compliance with such a notice, makes any statement which he knows to be false in a material particular or recklessly makes any statement which is false in a material particular,
shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 58 applied (with modifications) (1.10.1994) by S.I. 1994/2249, reg. 3(4)