Regulation 9 Offences and penalties: generalI1
United Kingdom
(1)
Any reference in regulation 6, 7 or 8 to a person who fails to comply with any of the requirements of the Community Regulation includes a person, who in purported compliance with the Community Regulation—
(a)
furnishes information which he knows to be false in a material particular; or
(b)
recklessly furnishes information which is false in a material particular.
(2)
The penalties specified for the purposes of this paragraph are—
(a)
on summary conviction, imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or both;
(b)
on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or a fine or both.