Part 1The Cladding Assurance Register
2Offence of providing false or misleading information for the register
(1)
A person commits an offence if—
(a)
the person gives information that the person knows, or ought to know, is false or misleading to—
(i)
the Scottish Ministers, or
(ii)
a person carrying out a single-building assessment or an additional work assessment, and
(b)
the person knows, or is reckless as to whether, giving the information is likely to result in—
(i)
a material inaccuracy in an entry in the cladding assurance register, or
(ii)
an entry for a building not being created in the register when it otherwise would.
(2)
A person who commits an offence under subsection (1) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.
(3)
For the avoidance of doubt, the reference in subsection (1) to giving the Scottish Ministers information is not limited to doing so in response to a requirement imposed under section 5.