Schedule 12: OFCOM’s powers of entry, inspection and audit Information offences and penalties Section 109: Offences in connection with information notices
This section sets out the criminal offences that can be committed in relation to information notices issued by OFCOM. It is an offence for such persons to:
fail to comply with OFCOM’s information request;
provide false information to OFCOM in response to their information request;
provide encrypted information to OFCOM that it is not possible to understand in response to OFCOM’s information request; and
suppress, destroy or alter information requested by OFCOM.
	Subsection (7) provides that these offences may be committed only in relation to information notices which meet the conditions set out in paragraphs (a) and (b). Subsection (8) further provides for a subsequent court order to be made requiring compliance with an information notice where a person has been convicted of an offence.