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23.—(1) If any person, for the purposes of obtaining for that person or any other person any financial assistance under these Regulations knowingly or recklessly makes a statement which is false or misleading in a material particular, that person shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.
(2) If any person intentionally obstructs an authorised person (or a person accompanying an authorised person and acting under that authorised person’s instructions), in the exercise of the powers under regulation 17, that person shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.
(3) Where an offence under this regulation is committed by a body corporate or a partnership and is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of that body corporate, or any person who was purporting to act in such a capacity (or in the case of a partnership, a partner or a person who was purporting to act as such), that person as well as the body corporate or the partnership, as the case may be, shall be guilty of the offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
(4) Where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, paragraph (3) applies to acts and defaults of a member in connection with the management functions of the members as if the member were a director of the body corporate.
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