Part 2Approval of construction work etc.

Building warrants

16Applications and grants: offences

(1)

Any person who—

(a)

makes an application under section 9 for a building warrant or an amendment to a warrant containing a statement which that person knows to be false or misleading in a material particular, or

(b)

recklessly makes such an application containing a statement which is false or misleading in a material particular,

is guilty of an offence.

(2)

Any verifier who grants a building warrant, or makes an amendment to a warrant, under that section knowing that the application for the warrant or amendment contains a statement which is false in a material particular is guilty of an offence.