Part 3

Funding for charitable, benevolent or philanthropic institutions
Chapter 1

Public charitable collections

Supplementary

Offences
64
1
A person commits an offence if, in connection with any charitable appeal, he displays or uses—
a
a prescribed badge or prescribed certificate of authority which is not for the time being held by him for the purposes of the appeal pursuant to regulations under section 63, or
b
any 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.
2
A person commits an offence if—
a
for the purposes of an application made under section 51 or section 58, or
b
for the purposes of section 49 or section 50,
he knowingly or recklessly furnishes any information which is false or misleading in a material particular.
3
A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.
4
In 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.
Pt. 3 Ch. 1 power to amend or modify conferred by 1993 c. 10, Sch. 1C, paras. 6, 7 (as inserted (27.2.2007) by Charities Act 2006 (c. 50), s. 79(2), Sch. 4; S.I. 2007/309, art. 2, Sch.)