The Fishing Vessels (Decommissioning) Scheme (Northern Ireland) 2001

Reduction, withholding and recovery of grant

16.  If at any time the Department has approved an application in respect of any vessel it appears to it that any of the relevant conditions have not been complied with or (without prejudice to the generality of such conditions) that—

(a) the application of any part of it was not an application which the applicant was entitled under Article 3 to make;

(b) the applicant or an employee, servant or agent of an applicant—

(i) has failed to comply with any requirement imposed by Articles 8 to 10 and 13;

(ii) has intentionally obstructed any officer in the exercise of his powers under Article 14; or

(iii) has given information on any matter relevant to the giving of the approval or the making of a payment relevant to the approval which is false or misleading in a material respect; or

(c) there has been damage or destruction of the vessel resulting in the payment to any person of any amount under a policy of insurance or by way of compensation or damages (regardless of whether or not the method of scrapping the vessel has been approved under Article 8(2) before such damage or destruction occurred),

it may revoke the approval of such application in whole or in part or may reduce or withhold any grant in respect of the application and, where payment by way of grant has been made, may on demand recover, as a civil debt, an amount equal to the whole or any part of the payment which has been so made.