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16c. 6 :(a) the Secretary of State has reasonable cause to believe will facilitate the giving of information the person may at any time be required to give under subsection (1), and
 * (b) are specified in the notice.

(3) A person who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with a notice served on him under subsection (1) or (2) is guilty of an offence and liable—
 * (a) on summary conviction, to a fine of an amount not exceeding the statutory maximum;
 * (b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine.

(4) A person on whom a notice is served under subsection (1) and who knowingly makes a false or misleading statement in response to it is guilty of an offence and liable—
 * (a) on summary conviction, to a fine of an amount not exceeding the statutory maximum;
 * (b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine or to both.

23.—(1) The Secretary of State may make regulations requiring persons of any description specified in the regulations to inform him that they are of such a description.

(2) Any such description must be so framed that persons within it are persons on whom the Secretary of State is likely to want to serve a notice under section 22.

(3) If regulations are made under this section the Secretary of State shall arrange for a statement of the fact that they have been made to be published in such manner as is likely to bring them to the attention of persons affected by them.

(4) A person who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with a requirement imposed by the regulations is guilty of an offence and liable—
 * (a) on summary conviction, to a fine of an amount not exceeding the statutory maximum;
 * (b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine.

(5) A person who knowingly makes a false or misleading statement in response to a requirement imposed by the regulations is guilty of an offence and liable—
 * (a) on summary conviction, to a fine of an amount not exceeding the statutory maximum;
 * (b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine or to both.

(6) The regulations shall be made by statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.