Charities Act 1993 : Chapter 10.

  • Great Britain.
Date:
[1993]
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Licence: Open Government Licence

Credit: Charities Act 1993 : Chapter 10. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Part III 1978 c. 30. Supply of false or misleading information to Commissioners, etc. Data protection. 1984 c. 35. (6) This section applies to the following bodies and persons— (a) any government department (including a Northern Ireland department); (b) any local authority; (c) any constable; and (d) any other body or person discharging functions of a public nature (including a body or person discharging regulatory functions in relation to any description of activities). (7) In subsection (6)(d) above the reference to any such body or person as is there mentioned shall, in relation to a disclosure by the Charity Commissioners under subsection (4) above, be construed as including a reference to any such body or person in a country or territory outside the United Kingdom. (8) Nothing in this section shall be construed as affecting any power of disclosure exercisable apart from this section. (9) In this section “enactment” includes an enactment comprised in subordinate legislation (within the meaning of the Interpretation Act 1978). 11.—(1) Any person who knowingly or recklessly provides the Commissioners with information which is false or misleading in a material particular shall be guilty of an offence if the information— (a) is provided in purported compliance with a requirement imposed by or under this Act; or (b) is provided otherwise than as mentioned in paragraph (a) above but in circumstances in which the person providing the information intends, or could reasonably be expected to know, that it would be used by the Commissioners for the purpose of discharging their functions under this Act. (2) Any person who wilfully alters, suppresses, conceals or destroys any document which he is or is liable to be required, by or under this Act, to produce to the Commissioners shall be guilty of an offence. (3) Any person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable— (a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum; (b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine, or both. (4) In this section references to the Commissioners include references to any person conducting an inquiry under section 8 above. 12. An order under section 30 of the Data Protection Act 1984 (exemption from subject access provisions of data held for the purpose of discharging designated functions in connection with the regulation of financial services etc.) may designate for the purposes of that section, as if they were functions conferred by or under such an enactment as is there mentioned, any functions of the Commissioners appearing to the Secretary of State to be—