Protection of Employees (Employers' Insolvency) Act, 1984
|
Offences. |
15.—(1) If any person, in relation to an application under section 6 or 7 of this Act, whether for himself or for some other person, | |
(a) knowingly makes any false statement or false representation or knowingly conceals a material fact, or | ||
(b) produces or furnishes, or causes or knowingly allows to be produced or furnished, any document or information which he knows to be false in a material particular, | ||
he shall be guilty of an offence. | ||
(2) If a person refuses or wilfully neglects to provide any information or produce any document which he has been required to provide or produce by a notice under section 8 of this Act he shall be guilty of an offence. | ||
(3) If a person, in purporting to comply with a requirement of a notice under section 8 of this Act, knowingly or recklessly makes any false statement he shall be guilty of an offence. | ||
(4) A person who is guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £500. | ||
(5) Subsections (8) and (9) of section 266 of the Act of 1981 shall apply in relation to an offence under this section which is committed by a body corporate as they apply to offences under Part V of the Act of 1981 which are so committed. | ||
(6) Subsection (10) of section 266 of the Act of 1981 shall be construed and have effect as if the reference therein to proceedings under Part V of the Act of 1981 contained a reference to proceedings under this section. |