The Export of Goods (Control) Order 1989

Offences in connection with applications for licences, conditions attaching to licences, etc.

6.—(1) If for the purpose of obtaining any licence or permission under this Order for the exportation or shipment as ships' stores of any goods or of obtaining from the Secretary of State a European Community export licence as referred to in article 3 of this Order any person makes any statement or furnishes any document or information which to his knowledge is false in a material particular or recklessly makes any statement or furnishes any document or information which is false in a material particular he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two thousand pounds and on conviction on indictment to a fine or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, or to both; and any licence or permission or European Community export licence which may have been granted for the exportation or shipment as ships' stores of any goods, in connection with the application for which the false statement was made or the false document or information furnished, shall be void as from the time it was granted.

(2) Any person who has exported goods from the United Kingdom under the authority of a licence granted by the Secretary of State in pursuance of Article 4(a) and who fails to comply with any condition attaching to that licence shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two thousand pounds and on conviction on indictment to a fine or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, or to both:

• Provided that no person shall be guilty of an offence under this paragraph where he proves that the condition with which he failed to comply was modified, otherwise than with his consent, by the Secretary of State and that the goods in relation to which he failed to comply with the condition had, at the time when the condition was modified, been exported from the United Kingdom.