{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agricultural-processing-and-marketing-grant-regulations-1995/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agricultural-processing-and-marketing-grant-regulations-1995/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/362",
  "legislation_title": "The Agricultural Processing and Marketing Grant Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agricultural-processing-and-marketing-grant-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "False statements",
  "text": "(1) If any person, for the purposes of obtaining for himself or any other person Community aid or any grant under these Regulations, knowingly or recklessly makes a false statement, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.\n(2) Any information relating to the offence referred to in paragraph (1) above which is triable by a magistrates' court in England and Wales may be tried if it is laid at any time within five years of the commission of the offence and within six months of the relevant date.\n(3) Summary proceedings for the offence referred to in paragraph (1) above may be commenced in Scotland at any time within five years of the commission of the offence and within six months of the relevant date; and for the purposes of this paragraph proceedings shall be deemed to be commenced on the date on which a warrant to apprehend or to cite the accused is granted.\n(4) In this regulation “relevant date” means the date on which evidence to justify proceedings comes to the knowledge of the prosecutor.\n(5) For the purposes of paragraph (4) above, a certificate of the prosecutor as to the date on which such evidence as is there mentioned came to his knowledge shall be conclusive evidence of that fact.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/362/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:16:31.001866+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}