PART 5MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL
CHAPTER 1MISCELLANEOUS
Power and offences relating to provision of information
54Offence of providing false or misleading information
(1)
A person commits an offence if that person—
(a)
provides any information or document to the Welsh Ministers, in connection with any of their functions under or by virtue of Parts 3 to 5 of this Act, that is false or misleading, and
(b)
knows that the information or document is false or misleading or is reckless as to whether it is false or misleading.
(2)
A person commits an offence if that person—
(a)
provides any information or document to another person that is false or misleading,
(b)
knows that the information or document is false or misleading or is reckless as to whether it is false or misleading, and
(c)
knows that the information or document is to be used by the Welsh Ministers in connection with any of their functions under or by virtue of Parts 3 to 5 of this Act.
(3)
It is a defence for a person charged with an offence under subsection (1) or (2) (“P”) to show that, at the time of providing the information or document, P informed the person to which it was supplied, that P knew or suspected that it was false or misleading.
(4)
A person that commits an offence under subsection (1) or (2) is liable on summary conviction to a fine.
(5)
In this section “false or misleading” means false or misleading in any material respect.