# Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009, Section 47: Power to obtain information, documents and assistance: offence


(1) A person who—
(a) refuses or fails, without reasonable excuse, to do anything required of that person by a notice under section 43(5) or 44(3), or
(b) intentionally alters, suppresses or destroys a document which that person has been required by such notice to produce,
commits an offence.
(2) A person who commits an offence under subsection (1) is liable—
(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum,
(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2009/6/section/47 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/flood-risk-management-scotland-act-2009/section-47
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