Part 3Flood risk assessment, maps and plans
Provision of information and assistance
47Power to obtain information, documents and assistance: offence
(1)
A person who—
(a)
refuses or fails, without reasonable excuse, to do anything required of that person by a notice under section 43(5) or 44(3), or
(b)
intentionally alters, suppresses or destroys a document which that person has been required by such notice to produce,
commits an offence.
(2)
A person who commits an offence under subsection (1) is liable—
(a)
on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum,
(b)
on conviction on indictment, to a fine.