Building (Scotland) Act 2003

20Completion certificates: offences

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(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.