The Plant Protection Products (Scotland) Regulations 2003

General offences

21.—(1) Where in relation to an application for an approval under these Regulations, an application for an extension of use under regulation 10 or a requirement or condition specified in such an approval or extension of use, any person–

(a) makes a statement which that person knows to be false in a material particular;

(b) recklessly makes a statement which is false in a material particular; or

(c) intentionally fails to disclose any material particular,

that person shall be guilty of an offence.

(2) Where in relation to an application for an approval under these Regulations, an application for an extension of use under regulation 10 or a requirement or condition specified in such an approval or extension of use, any person causes or permits any person–

(a) to make a statement which the former knows to be false in a material particular;

(b) recklessly to make a statement which is false in a material particular; or

(c) intentionally to fail to disclose any material particular,

that person shall be guilty of an offence.

(3) Any person who–

(a) intentionally obstructs an officer in the performance of any of the functions of that officer under regulation 24;

(b) fails to comply with a requirement made or direction given by an officer in the performance of the functions of that officer under regulation 24; or

(c) in purporting to give information required by an officer for the performance of any of the functions of that officer under regulation 24–

(i) makes a statement which that person knows to be false in a material particular;

(ii) recklessly makes a statement which is false in a material particular; or

(iii) intentionally fails to disclose any material particular;

shall be guilty of an offence.

(4) In this regulation “officer” shall have the same meaning as provided for in paragraph 1(c) of Schedule 2 to the 1985 Act, as read with regulation 24.