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Section 5B: Offences relating to information

Acquisition of Land Act 1981 · 1981 c. 67View on legislation.gov.uk

Part I: General

A person commits an offence if he fails without reasonable excuse to comply with a notice served on him under section 5A.

A person commits an offence if, in response to a notice served on him under section 5A—

he gives information which is false in a material particular, and
when he does so, he knows or ought reasonably to know that the information is false.

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 director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or
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.

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.

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.

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