Section 8 Information about furnaces and fuel consumed.C2

For the purpose of enabling the local authority properly to perform their functions under and in connection with the two last preceding sections, the local authority may, by notice in writing served on the occupier of any building . . . F1 require the occupier of the building . . . to furnish 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.

Any person who, having been duly served with a notice under subsection (1) of this section, fails to comply with the requirements thereof within the time limited or furnishes any information in reply thereto which he knows to be false in a material particular shall be guilty of an offence.