False information about an offence attracts criminal liability, with possible imprisonment or fine and extraterritorial reach. Giving false information about a known or reasonably believed commission of an offence is criminalised: a person who, knowing or having reason to believe an offence occurred, supplies information he knows or believes to be false incurs penal consequences including imprisonment or fine. An extraterritorial application treats specified offences committed abroad as offences for these purposes.
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False information about an offence attracts criminal liability, with possible imprisonment or fine and extraterritorial reach.
Giving false information about a known or reasonably believed commission of an offence is criminalised: a person who, knowing or having reason to believe an offence occurred, supplies information he knows or believes to be false incurs penal consequences including imprisonment or fine. An extraterritorial application treats specified offences committed abroad as offences for these purposes.
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