Prospective
(1)It is an offence for a person to—
(a)intentionally obstruct an officer of a local weights and measures authority who is exercising powers conferred by schedule 2,
(b)intentionally fail to comply with any requirement made of the person by an officer of a local weights and measures authority under paragraph 7 or 10 of schedule 2,
(c)fail, without reasonable cause, to give an officer of a local weights and measures authority any other assistance or information which the officer may reasonably require of him for the purposes of the exercise of the officer's powers under schedule 2.
(2)It is an offence for a person, in giving any information which is required of the person by virtue of subsection (1)(c)—
(a)to make any statement which the person knows is false in a material particular, or
(b)recklessly to make a statement which is false in a material particular.
(3)A person who commits an offence under this section is liable, on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale (or both).
Commencement Information
I1S. 42 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 56(2)
(1)It is an offence for a person who is not an officer of a local weights and measures authority to purport to act as such an officer in the exercise of powers under schedule 2.
(2)A person who commits an offence under subsection (1) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.
Commencement Information
I2S. 43 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 56(2)