Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980

8 (1) Where, with a view to performing a function conferred on the Authority by this Part of this Act, the Authority considers that it ought to have information connected with any land, the Authority may serve on one or more of the following persons, namely—

(a) the occupier of the land ; and

(b) any person who has an interest in the land either as freeholder, mortgagee or lessee or who directly or indirectly receives rent for the land ; and

(c) any person who, in pursuance of an agreement between himself and a person interested in the land, is authorised to manage the land or to arrange for the letting of it,

a notice specifying the land and the function and the provision which confers the function and requiring the recipient of the notice to furnish to the Authority, within a period specified in the notice (which shall not be less than 14 days beginning with the day on which the notice is served), the nature of his interest in the land and the name and address of each person whom the recipient of the notice believes to be the occupier of the land and of each person whom he believes to be, as respects the land, such a person as is mentioned in paragraphs (b) and (c) above.

(2) A person who—

(a) fails (without reasonable excuse) to comply with the requirements of a notice served on him in pursuance of subparagraph (1) above ; or

(b) in furnishing any information in compliance with such a notice makes a statement which he knows to be false in a material particular or recklessly makes a statement which is false in a material particular,

shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £500.