[20A False statements as to financial circumstances]
Criminal Justice Act 1991 (1991 c 53) | Legislation

[20A  False statements as to financial circumstances]

[(1)     A person who is charged with an offence who, in furnishing a statement of [financial circumstances (whether a statement of assets, of other financial circumstances or of both)] in response to an official request—

(a)     makes a statement which he knows to be false in a material particular;

(b)     recklessly furnishes a statement which is false in a material particular; or

(c)

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