Enforcement powers Section 12: Provision of information by operators
Section 12 provides a power for the Secretary of State to give a notice to an operator of a service in scope of the Act, requiring it to provide information, in the manner and within the period specified in the notice, for the purpose of:
establishing whether a service is or any time was being operated consistently with an equivalence declaration provided by the operator, or
establishing whether an equivalence declaration provided by the operator is false or misleading in so far as it concerns the operation of the service before the declaration was provided.
	This may in particular include information relating to the service and information relating to persons working on ships providing the service and their remuneration.
	There is an exception whereby operators are not required to provide information under this section to the extent that doing so would cause the operator to breach domestic data protection legislation or the data protection laws of any country or territory outside the UK.
	It is an offence for an operator to fail to provide information required in the manner and within the period specified, to provide information that is false or misleading, or to provide information that becomes false or misleading and fail to inform the Secretary of State within four weeks. This offence is punishable on summary conviction by a fine in England and Wales, or a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale in Scotland and Northern Ireland.