Housing (Private Rented Dwellings) (Amendment) Act, 1983
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False information. |
16.—(1) Any person who, in connection with an application to the Tribunal or a housing authority under section 5 (1) or an appeal to the Tribunal under section 11 , in the course of the determination by the Tribunal or a rent officer of the terms of a tenancy or in the course of the hearing of such appeal, gives any information, either orally or in writing, which he knows to be false or misleading, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £500. | |
(2) Where an offence under this section which is committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, any person (or any person acting on his behalf) being a director, manager or secretary of such body, that person or the person so acting, as the case may be, shall be guilty of that offence. |