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Part 5Social care and social work: scrutiny and improvement

Chapter 4Local authority adoption and fostering services etc.

90Offences under Chapter 4

(1)Sections 80(1) and (3) and 82 apply in relation to a care service registered under this Chapter as they apply in relation to such a service registered under Chapter 3.

(2)Any person who fails to comply with section 84(3) commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.

(3)Any person who, in an application—

(a)for registration under this Chapter, or

(b)for variation or removal of a condition in force in relation to a registration under this Chapter,

knowingly makes a statement which is false or misleading in a material respect commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.