Part 4: Foreign Activities and Foreign Influence Registration Scheme Section 78: Offence of carrying out activities under arrangements tainted by false information
Section 78 creates offences for carrying out activities, or arranging for activities to be carried out, under a registerable arrangement where false or misleading information has been provided in connection with the arrangement. These offences will allow for enforcement action to be taken against those who are acting pursuant to a falsely registered arrangement and are either complicit, or in a position where they ought reasonably to know that the arrangement has been registered falsely.
	Subsection (1) creates an offence for carrying out an activity, or arranging for an activity to be carried out, in the United Kingdom pursuant to a foreign activity arrangement which is required to be registered under section 65(4) (requirement to register foreign activity arrangements), where information has been provided by the person, or another person, (either through registration or in response to an information notice) that is false, inaccurate or misleading in a material way, and the person knows, or having regard to other matters known to them ought reasonably to know, that the information provided is false, inaccurate or misleading in a material way.
	Subsection (2) creates an offence for carrying out political influence activities, or arranging for such activities to be carried out, in the United Kingdom pursuant to a foreign influence arrangement which is required to be registered under section 69(4) (requirement to register foreign influence arrangements), where information has been provided by the person, or another person, (either through registration or in response to an information notice) that is false, inaccurate or misleading in a material way, and the person knows, or having regard to other matters known to them ought reasonably to know, that the information provided is false, inaccurate or misleading in a material way.
Example (1): How the offence would apply in relation to example 1 under section 66
If the company had registered the arrangement with the foreign government officials using tainted or false information, employees of the company that are engaging in the delivery of the networking and collaboration events could be liable to prosecution. This would only be the case if the employee knew, or ought reasonably to know when considering other matters known to them, that the arrangement with the foreign country had been registered with false information.