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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-partnerships-register-of-people-with-significant-control-regulations-2017/schedule-2/paragraph-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-partnerships-register-of-people-with-significant-control-regulations-2017/schedule-2/paragraph-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/694",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Partnerships (Register of People with Significant Control) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-partnerships-register-of-people-with-significant-control-regulations-2017",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Offences for failing to provide information",
  "text": "(1) A person commits an offence if the person—\n(a) fails to comply with a duty under regulation 14 or 15, or\n(b) in purported compliance with such a duty—\n(i) makes a statement that the person knows to be false in a material particular, or\n(ii) recklessly makes a statement that is false in a material particular.\n(2) Where the person is a legal entity, an offence is also committed by every officer of the entity who is in default.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under this paragraph is liable—\n(a) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or a fine (or both);\n(b) on summary conviction—\n(i) in England and Wales, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine (or both);\n(ii) in Scotland and Northern Ireland, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum (or both).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/694/schedule/2/paragraph/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:10:05.775464+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}