Section 85: Penalty for failure to comply with requirement, &c.

Companies Act 1989 · 1989 c. 40View on legislation.gov.uk

Part III: Investigations and Powers to Obtain Information

A person who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with a requirement imposed on him under section 83 commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale, or both.

A person who in purported compliance with any such requirement furnishes information which he knows to be false or misleading in a material particular, or recklessly furnishes information which is false or misleading in a material particular, commits an offence and is liable—

on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine, or both;
on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or both.

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