# The Neighbourhood Planning (Referendums) Regulations 2012, Paragraph 49: Supply of the register


(1) (a) A person is guilty of an offence if that person contravenes any of the provisions specified in sub-paragraph (2), or
(b) if that person is an appropriate supervisor of a person (“P”) who fails to comply with any of those provisions and that person failed to take appropriate steps.
(2) The provisions are paragraphs 29(6), 31(3), 32(2), 33(2), (5) and (7), 35(2) and (4), 36(2) and (6), 38(2), 39(5), (7) and (9).
(3) P is not guilty of an offence under sub-paragraph (1) if—
(a) P has an appropriate supervisor, and
(b) P has complied with all the requirements imposed by that appropriate supervisor.
(4) A person who is not P or an appropriate supervisor is not guilty of an offence under sub-paragraph (1) if that person takes all reasonable steps to ensure that the provisions specified in sub-paragraph (2) are complied with.
(5) In sub-paragraphs (1)(b) and (3)—
(a) an appropriate supervisor is a person who is a director of a company or concerned in the management of an organisation under which P is employed or under whose direction or control P is;
(b) appropriate steps are such steps as it was reasonable for the appropriate supervisor to take to secure the operation of procedures designed to prevent, so far as reasonably practicable, the occurrence of a failure to comply with the provisions in sub-paragraph (2).
(6) A person guilty of an offence as mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2031/schedule/6/paragraph/49 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/neighbourhood-planning-referendums-regulations-2012/schedule-6/paragraph-49
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