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Houses in Multiple Occupation Act (Northern Ireland) 2016

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Failure to provide information or provision of false information

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75.—(1) A person commits an offence if the person—

(a)refuses or fails to provide information as required under section 71 or 73 or to provide a document as required under section 72, and

(b)does not have a reasonable excuse for that refusal or failure.

(2) A person commits an offence if—

(a)the person provides information in response to a notice under section 71 or 73 or a request under section 74,

(b)the information is false or misleading in a material particular, and

(c)the person knows that it is, or is reckless as to whether it is, false or misleading.

(3) A person commits an offence if the person intentionally alters, suppresses or destroys any document that the person has been required to produce by a notice under section 72.

(4) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.

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