Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009 (asp 6)

Part 3 Flood risk assessment, maps and plans

Provision of information and assistance

47 Power 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.