16Applications and grants: offences
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(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.