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.