PART 4

GRAFFITI AND OTHER DEFACEMENT

Supplementary

Power of district councils to obtain information
39
1
Subject to subsection (2), a district council may serve on any person a notice requiring that person to supply to the council, within a period or at times specified in the notice and in a form so specified, any information so specified which the council reasonably considers that it needs for the purposes of any function conferred on the council by this Part.
2
Regulations may restrict the information which may be required under subsection (1) and determine the form in which the information is to be so required.
3
A person who—
a
fails without reasonable excuse to comply with the requirements of a notice served under this section, or
b
in supplying any information in compliance with such a notice, makes any statement which that person knows to be false in a material particular or recklessly makes any statement which is false in a material particular,
is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.
S. 39 in operation at 1.4.2012 by S.R. 2012/13, art. 2(2), Sch. 2