Offences related to EU authorisations
3.—(1) A person commits an offence and may be arrested who, for the purpose of obtaining an EU authorisation—
(a)makes any statement or furnishes any document or information which to that person’s knowledge is false in a material particular; or
(b)recklessly makes any statement or furnishes any document or information which is false in a material particular.
(2) An EU authorisation granted in connection with the application for which the false statement was made or the false document or information furnished is void from the time it was granted.
(3) A person who, having acted under the authority of an EU authorisation, fails to comply with a requirement or condition of the EU authorisation commits an offence and may be arrested, unless—
(a)the EU authorisation was modified after the completion of the act authorised; and
(b)the alleged failure to comply would not have been a failure had the EU authorisation not been so modified.