Regulation 47 Provision of false or misleading information
(1)
It is an offence for a scheme participant or a near-threshold supplier to make a notification which it is required to make under regulation 15 or 16 (notification of fossil fuel boiler sales)—
(a)
which includes information that the scheme participant or a near-threshold supplier knows to be false or misleading in a material particular; or
(b)
recklessly and which includes information which is false or misleading in a material particular.
(2)
A scheme participant or a near-threshold supplier guilty of an offence under paragraph (1) is liable—
(a)
on summary conviction in England and Wales, to a fine;
(b)
on summary conviction in Scotland or in Northern Ireland, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum;
(c)
on conviction on indictment, to a fine.