http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2008/12/section/149Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008An Act to provide for the establishment and functions of the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland and the Charity Tribunal for Northern Ireland; to make provision about the law of charities, including provision about charitable incorporated organisations; to make further provision about public charitable collections and other fund-raising carried on in connection with charities and other institutions; and for connected purposes.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2026-01-29Expert Participation2022-03-30 PART 13 CHAPTER 11491A person commits an offence if, in connection with any charitable appeal, that person displays or uses—aa prescribed badge or prescribed certificate of authority which is not for the time being held by that person for the purposes of the appeal pursuant to regulations under section 148, orbany badge or article, or any certificate or other document, so nearly resembling a prescribed badge or (as the case may be) a prescribed certificate of authority as to be likely to deceive a member of the public.2A person commits an offence if—afor the purposes of an application made under section 137 or section 143, orbfor the purposes of section 135 or section 136,that person knowingly or recklessly provides any information which is false or misleading in a material particular.3A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.4In subsection (1) “prescribed badge” and “prescribed certificate of authority” mean respectively a badge and a certificate of authority in such form as may be prescribed by regulations under section 148.Word in s. 149(2) substituted (19.1.2013) by Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2013 (c. 3), s. 10(1), Sch. 1 para. 6(3)