# The Scottish Partnerships (Register of People with Significant Control) Regulations 2017, Paragraph 16: Offences for failing to provide information


(1) A person commits an offence if the person—
(a) fails to comply with a duty under regulation 14 or 15, or
(b) in purported compliance with such a duty—
(i) makes a statement that the person knows to be false in a material particular, or
(ii) recklessly makes a statement that is false in a material particular.
(2) Where the person is a legal entity, an offence is also committed by every officer of the entity who is in default.
(3) A person guilty of an offence under this paragraph is liable—
(a) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or a fine (or both);
(b) on summary conviction—
(i) in England and Wales, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine (or both);
(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).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/694/schedule/2/paragraph/16 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-partnerships-register-of-people-with-significant-control-regulations-2017/schedule-2/paragraph-16
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