Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022
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Disqualification for providing false or misleading information | ||
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53. (1) Where a designated local authority determines that a person has furnished information to the designated local authority for the purposes of making an application under section 13 which he or she knows is false or misleading, or being reckless as to whether it is false or misleading— | ||
(a) the designated local authority shall, where it has not at the time of the determination made a decision under section 13 (7) in respect of the application, refuse to consider further the application, and | ||
(b) subject to section 52 (6), the person shall be disqualified from making a further application for a period of 5 years from the date of the designated local authority’s determination. | ||
(2) The designated local authority shall not make a determination under subsection (1) unless it has given the person the opportunity to make representations to the designated local authority in relation to its proposal to make the determination. | ||
(3) The Minister may prescribe— | ||
(a) the procedure by which a designated local authority may make a determination under subsection (1), and | ||
(b) the form and manner in which representations referred to in subsection (2) may be made. |