60.—(1) If any person on whom a notice has been served under Article 22(2),[F1 26] or 59(1) or (2) fails without reasonable excuse to comply with the notice, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding[F2 level 3 on the standard scale].
(2) Where a person is convicted under paragraph (1) in respect of a failure to comply with a notice and the failure continues after the conviction, then, unless he has a reasonable excuse for the continuance of the failure, he shall be guilty of a further offence under paragraph (1) and shall be liable on summary conviction, in addition to the fine specified in that paragraph, to a fine not exceeding[F2 level 1 on the standard scale] for every day subsequent to the day on which he is first convicted of an offence under that paragraph on which the failure continues.
(3) If any person in response to a notice under Article 22(2) or[F1 26], or in a return made under Article 59(1) or (2), makes a statement which he knows to be false in a material particular or recklessly makes any statement which is false in a material particular, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine not exceeding[F2 level 3 on the standard scale], or to both.
(4) If any person, other than the occupier or owner of land, knowingly prevents any other person from doing on the land any act that the other person is authorised under Article[F1 26A or] 58 to do or obstructs the other person in doing any such act, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding[F2 level 3 on the standard scale].
(5) If any person, being the occupier or owner of land, knowingly prevents any other person from doing on the land any act that the other person is authorised under Article[F1 26A or] 58 to do or obstructs the other person in doing any such act, a court of summary jurisdiction on proof thereof may order him to permit to be done on the land that act and all such things as are reasonably necessary to enable the act to be done or as are incidental to the doing of it; and, if he fails to comply with the order, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall, for every day during which the failure continues, be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding[F2 level 1 on the standard scale].
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Arts. 57 - 60 applied (with modifications) (1.4.2006) by Rates (Capital Values, etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/611 (N.I. 4)), arts. 1(3), 14(1); S.R. 2006/146, art. 2