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Fisheries and Aquaculture Structures (Grants) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002
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- 2002 No. 6
- Regulation 17
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Changes and effects yet to be applied to Regulation 17:
- Regulations revoked with savings by S.R. 2015/399 reg. 15(1)(a)
- reg. 2(1)(f) words added by S.R. 2004/109 reg. 4(b)(i)
- reg. 2(1)(i) words added by S.R. 2004/109 reg. 4(b)(ii)
- reg. 17 coming into force by S.R. 2002/6 reg. 1
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- reg. 2(1)(f) words added by S.R. 2004/109 reg. 4(b)(i)
- reg. 2(1)(i) words added by S.R. 2004/109 reg. 4(b)(ii)
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17.—(1) If any person, for the purposes of obtaining financial assistance for himself or any other person—
(a)in furnishing any information in purported compliance with a requirement imposed by or under regulation 4(1) or (3) or 13(5)(a) knowingly or recklessly makes a statement which is false or misleading in a material respect; or
(b)in purported compliance with a requirement imposed under regulation 4(3) or 13(5)(a) or (c) knowingly or recklessly produces a document which is false or misleading in a material respect,
he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.
(2) If any person—
(a)fails to comply with the requirement imposed under regulation 9 or by regulation 10;
(b)fails to comply with a request made under regulation 12; or
(c)intentionally refuses to supply any information, make any return, or produce any document when required to do so by, or otherwise intentionally obstructs, an authorised officer (or a person accompanying him and acting on his instructions) acting in exercise of a power conferred by regulation 13,
he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.
(3) Proceedings for an offence under paragraph (1) or (2) above may, subject to paragraph (4), be commenced within the period of six months from the date on which evidence sufficient in the opinion of the prosecutor to justify the proceedings comes to his knowledge.
(4) No such proceedings shall be commenced by virtue of this regulation more than five years after the commission of the offence.
(5) For the purpose of this regulation—
(a)a certificate signed by or on behalf of the prosecutor and stating the date on which evidence sufficient in his opinion to warrant the proceedings came to his knowledge shall be conclusive evidence sufficient of that fact; and
(b)a certificate stating that matter purporting to be so signed shall be deemed to be so signed unless the contrary is proved.
(6) Where an offence under this regulation which has been committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of that offence and be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
(7) Where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, paragraph (6) shall apply in relation to the acts and defaults of a member in connection with his functions of management as if he were a director of the body corporate.
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 17 in operation at 25.2.2002, see reg. 1
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