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					<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1964/36/section/22</dc:identifier><dc:title>Business Tenancies Act (Northern Ireland) 1964</dc:title><dc:description>An Act to provide security of tenure for certain tenants occupying premises for business, professional or certain other purposes by enabling them to obtain new tenancies in certain cases or in certain circumstances to obtain compensation; to make provision for the payment of compensation in respect of certain improvements to such premises; and for purposes connected therewith.</dc:description><dc:type>text</dc:type><dc:format>text/xml</dc:format><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:publisher>Statute Law Database</dc:publisher><dc:modified>2013-02-18</dc:modified><dct:valid>2009-10-01</dct:valid>
					
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				</ukm:Metadata><Primary><Body DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1964/36/body" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/apni/1964/36/body" NumberOfProvisions="55" RestrictStartDate="2006-01-01"><Part DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1964/36/part/I" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/apni/1964/36/part/I" NumberOfProvisions="29" RestrictStartDate="2006-01-01" id="part-I"><Number>PART I</Number><Title>SECURITY OF TENURE FOR BUSINESS, PROFESSIONAL AND CERTAIN OTHER TENANTS</Title><Chapter DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1964/36/part/I/chapter/n3" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/apni/1964/36/part/I/chapter/n3" NumberOfProvisions="15" RestrictStartDate="2006-01-01" id="part-I-chapter-n3"><Number/><Title>Application to the Lands Tribunal for new tenancies</Title><P1group RestrictStartDate="2006-01-01"><Title>Penalties for fraud or the wilful concealment of material facts.</Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1964/36/section/22" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/apni/1964/36/section/22" id="section-22"><Pnumber>22</Pnumber><P1para><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1964/36/section/22/1" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/apni/1964/36/section/22/1" id="section-22-1"><Pnumber>1</Pnumber><P2para><Text>Any person who fraudulently or by the wilful concealment of material facts induces the Lands Tribunal to grant, or to refuse to grant, a new tenancy under this Part shall, without prejudice to the provisions of the [<CommentaryRef Ref="c1157337"/> Perjury (Northern Ireland) Order 1979 <MarginNoteRef Ref="m00007"/>], be guilty of an offence and shall be liable—</Text><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1964/36/section/22/1/a" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/apni/1964/36/section/22/1/a" id="section-22-1-a"><Pnumber>a</Pnumber><P3para><Text>on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding<Addition ChangeId="d30p1192" CommentaryRef="c1157338"> level 3 on the standard scale</Addition> or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment;</Text></P3para></P3><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1964/36/section/22/1/b" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/apni/1964/36/section/22/1/b" id="section-22-1-b"><Pnumber>b</Pnumber><P3para><Text>on indictment, to<Addition ChangeId="d30p1202" CommentaryRef="c1157338"> an unlimited fine</Addition> or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both such fine and such imprisonment.</Text></P3para></P3></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1964/36/section/22/2" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/apni/1964/36/section/22/2" id="section-22-2"><Pnumber>2</Pnumber><P2para><Text>For the purposes of any proceedings under this section, a certificate under the hand of a member of the Lands Tribunal that, in any proceedings of the Lands Tribunal heard before him (whether sitting alone or otherwise), a statement of material facts as set out in the certificate was made to the Tribunal or that any material facts as set out in the certificate were not disclosed to the Tribunal, shall, until the contrary is shown, be accepted as proof that such statement was made, or, as the case may be, that such facts were not disclosed to the Tribunal.</Text></P2para></P2></P1para></P1></P1group></Chapter></Part></Body></Primary><MarginNotes><MarginNote id="m00007"><Para><Text>1979 <Acronym Expansion="Northern Ireland">NI</Acronym> 19</Text></Para></MarginNote></MarginNotes><Commentaries><Commentary id="c1157337" Type="F"><Para><Text>1979 NI 19</Text></Para></Commentary><Commentary id="c1157338" Type="F"><Para><Text>1984 NI 3</Text></Para></Commentary></Commentaries></Legislation>