Part 4: Foreign Activities and Foreign Influence Registration Scheme Section 77: Offence of Providing False Information
This section creates an offence of providing false or misleading information as part of registration or in response to an information notice. These offences are intended to reduce the risk of registrants undermining the scheme by providing information which is false or misleading.
	Subsection (1) makes it an offence for a person to provide information to the Secretary of State under sections 74 (registration of information) or 75 (information notices), which relate to a foreign activity arrangement, and is false, misleading or inaccurate in a material way. This could be the case if, for example, a registrant only referred to one type of activity in their registration, when in fact they were carrying out multiple types of activities under their arrangement).
	Subsection (2) makes it an offence for a person to provide information to the Secretary of State under sections 74 (registration information) or 75 (information notices), which relate to the requirement to register activities of specified persons, and is false, inaccurate or misleading in a material way.
	Subsection (3) makes it an offence for a person to provide information to the Secretary of State under sections 74 (registration information) or 75 (information notices), which relate to a foreign influence arrangement, where the person knows, or having regard to other matters known to them ought reasonably to know, that the information is false, inaccurate, or misleading in a material way.
	Subsection (4) makes it an offence for a person to provide information to the Secretary of State under sections 74 (registration information) or 75 (information notices), which relate to the requirement to register political influence activities of foreign powers, where the person knows, or having regard to other matters known to them ought reasonably to know, that the information is false, inaccurate or misleading in a material way.