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5.—(1) A person commits an offence if in purported compliance with a requirement under paragraph 1 to provide information, the person—
(a)provides information which the person knows to be false in a material particular, or
(b)recklessly provides information which is false in a material particular,
but a prosecution may be instituted only with the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland.
(2) A person guilty of an offence under sub-paragraph (1) is liable—
(a)on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or a fine or to both,
(b)on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or a fine of an amount not exceeding the statutory maximum or to both.
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