http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2003/8

Part 2Approval of construction work etc.

Completion certificates

20Completion certificates: offences

(1)

Any person who, under this Act—

(a)

submits to a verifier a completion certificate containing a statement which that person knows to be false or misleading in a material particular, or

(b)

recklessly submits to a verifier a completion certificate containing a statement which is false or misleading in a material particular,

is guilty of an offence.

(2)

Any verifier who accepts a completion certificate submitted to it under this Act knowing that the certificate contains a statement which is false in a material particular is guilty of an offence.