Power of district councils to obtain information
20.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a district council may serve on any person a notice requiring him to furnish 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 Order.
(2) Regulations may restrict the information which may be required under paragraph (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 on him under this Article; or
(b)in furnishing any information in compliance with such a notice, makes any statement which he knows to be false in a material particular or recklessly makes any statement which is false in a material particular,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.