The Integrated Administration and Control System (Amendment) Regulations 1997

Amendment of previous Regulations

6.  In regulation 8 (offences and penalties)—

(a) in both paragraph (2) and paragraph (4), the words “in Great Britain” and the words from “, and in Northern Ireland” to the end of the paragraph shall be deleted(1);

(b) after paragraph (2) there shall be inserted the following paragraphs—

“(2A) If any person for the purpose—

(a) in England, Wales or Northern Ireland, of having a new identification number allocated (for the purposes of area aid applications to be made by him) in respect of any field of his, or

(b) in Scotland, of having any field identification number or field boundary updated (for the purposes of area aid applications to be made by him)—

(i) furnishes information which he knows to be false or misleading in a material particular; or

(ii) recklessly furnishes information which is false or misleading in a material particular,

he shall be guilty of an offence.

(2B) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (2A) above shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.”;

(c) in paragraph (5), after the number “(1)” there shall be inserted the number “, (2A)”.

(1)

Amended in consequence of S.I. 1994/2795 (N.I. 15), Article 3(2), which came into operation on 1st January 1995 by virtue of S.R. (N.I.) 1994/446.