Power to require information
23.—(1) A registration officer may require any person to give information required for the purposes of that officer’s duties in maintaining registers of parliamentary and local government electors.
(2) If any person–
(a)fails to comply with, or
(b)gives false information in pursuance of,
any such requisition of the registration officer, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.