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Employment Rights Act 1996

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169 Information relating to applications for payments.

(1) Where an employee makes an application to the Secretary of State under section 166, the Secretary of State may, by notice in writing given to the employer, require the employer— (a) to provide the Secretary of State with such information, and (b) to produce for examination on behalf of the Secretary of State documents in his custody or under his control of such description, as the Secretary of State may reasonably require for the purpose of determining whether the application is well-founded. (2) Where a person on whom a notice is served under subsection (1) fails without reasonable excuse to comply with a requirement imposed by the notice, he is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale. (3) A person is guilty of an offence if— (a) in providing any information required by a notice under subsection (1), he makes a statement which he knows to be false in a material particular or recklessly makes a statement which is false in a material particular, or (b) he produces for examination in accordance with a notice under subsection (1) a document which to his knowledge has been wilfully falsified. (4) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (3) is liable— (a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to both, or (b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to both.

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169 Information relating to applications for payments.

(1) Where an employee makes an application to the Secretary of State under section 166, the Secretary of State may, by notice in writing given to the employer, require the employer— (a) to provide the Secretary of State with such information, and (b) to produce for examination on behalf of the Secretary of State documents in his custody or under his control of such description, as the Secretary of State may reasonably require for the purpose of determining whether the application is well-founded. (2) Where a person on whom a notice is served under subsection (1) fails without reasonable excuse to comply with a requirement imposed by the notice, he is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale. (3) A person is guilty of an offence if— (a) in providing any information required by a notice under subsection (1), he makes a statement which he knows to be false in a material particular or recklessly makes a statement which is false in a material particular, or (b) he produces for examination in accordance with a notice under subsection (1) a document which to his knowledge has been wilfully falsified. (4) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (3) is liable— (a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to both, or (b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to both.

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