Statistics of Trade Act 1947

6 Duty to notify undertakings to Board of Trade or other competent authority

(1) If the Board of Trade publish, by advertisement in the Gazette, and in such newspapers as may appear to the Board to be sufficient for notifying the persons concerned, a list of any classes or descriptions of undertakings in relation to which returns will be required for the purposes of a particular census under this Act, it shall be the duty of every person carrying on an undertaking of any such class or description as aforesaid, who has not received a notice under subsection (2) of section three of this Act, to inform such person as may be specified in the advertisement, within such period, being not less than twenty-one days after the date of publication of the advertisement, as may be specified therein, that he is carrying on such an undertaking as aforesaid, and to give to that person such prescribed particulars of the undertaking as may be so specified.

(2) The Board "of Trade may delegate any of their functions under the last foregoing subsection to any other competent authority and references therein to the Board shall include references to any other competent authority to whom those functions have been so delegated.

(3) If any person fails to give any information or particulars as required by this section, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five pounds; but it shall be a defence for any person charged with an offence under this subsection to prove, that he did not know and had reasonable cause for not knowing that he was required so to give that information or those particulars.

(4) If any person knowingly or recklessly makes a statement in any particulars given as aforesaid which is false in a material particular, he shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds, or on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, of, in either case, to both such imprisonment and such a fine.

(5) In this section the expression " the Gazette " means.—

(a) in relation to an advertisement concerning undertakings in England and Wales only, the London Gazette ;

(b) in relation to an advertisement concerning undertakings, in Scotland only, the Edinburgh Gazette ;

(c) in relation to any other advertisement, the London Gazette and the Edinburgh Gazette.