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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 1 March 2021 - onwards

28C. Offence for failure to comply with notice under section 27B, 27C or 28

(1) A person to whom a notice under section 27B, 27C or 28 is given shall be guilty of an offence if the person -

(a) fails to comply with the notice, or

(b) in purported compliance with the notice, makes a statement that is false in a material particular, knowing it to be so false or being reckless as to whether it is so false.

(2) In proceedings for an offence under this section it shall be a defence to prove that the requirement (in the notice concerned) to give information was frivolous or vexatious.