12 Information about furnaces and fuel consumed.E+W+S
(1)For the purpose of enabling the local authority properly to perform their functions under and in connection with sections 5 to 11, the local authority may, by notice in writing served on the occupier of any building, require the occupier to furnish to them, within fourteen days or such longer time as may be limited by the notice, such information as to the furnaces in the building and the fuel or waste burned in those furnaces as they may reasonably require for that purpose.
(2)Any person who, having been duly served with a notice under subsection (1)—
(a)fails to comply with the requirements of the notice within the time limited; or
(b)furnishes any information in reply to the notice which he knows to be false in a material particular,
shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.