17.—(1) The Commission shall have power to collect such information as it considers necessary for the purpose of valuing any salmon fishery in the district and to require any proprietor or occupier of a salmon fishery to furnish it with such information in such form and at such times as it may determine.
(2) The Commission may use any information collected under paragraph (1) for the purposes of carrying out its functions under article 9.
(3) Any proprietor or occupier of a fishery who wilfully refuses to comply with any requirement made in pursuance of this article or makes any statement in relation to such a requirement which is false in a material particular shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.
(4) The Scottish Ministers may make available to the Commission for the purposes of valuations under this article any information collected by them under article 22 insofar as such information relates to fisheries in the district.