# Pipe-Lines Act 1962, Section 46: Penalties for uttering false documents and giving false information.

Extent: E+W+S

A person who—
(a) sends to the Secretary of State an application for the grant of a pipe-line construction authorisation or the making of a compulsory purchase or rights order, being an application which he knows to be false in a material particular, or recklessly sends to the Secretary of State such an application which is so false; or
(b) in purported compliance with section . . . , thirty-six or thirty-eight of this Act gives a notice which he knows to be false in a material particular or recklessly gives notice which is so false; or
(c) in purported compliance with subsection (1) of section thirty-five of this Act or subsection (2) of section thirty-seven thereof sends, deposits or furnishes a document which he knows to be false in a material particular or gives any information which he knows to be so false or recklessly sends, deposits or furnishes a document which is so false or recklessly gives any information which is so false;
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable—
(i) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to both such fine and such imprisonment;
(ii) on conviction on indictment, to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to both a fine and such imprisonment.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/10-11/58/section/46 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/pipe-lines-act-1962/section-46
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