Regulation 7 False statements

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.

A complaint charging the commission of an offence referred to in paragraph (1) may be heard and determined by a magistrates' court if it is made at any time within 5 years of the time that the offence was committed or ceased to continue and within 6 months after the relevant date.

In this regulation “relevant date” means the date on which evidence sufficient in the opinion of the complainant to justify proceedings comes to his knowledge.

For the purposes of paragraph (3) a certificate purporting to be signed by the complainant as to the date on which such evidence as is there mentioned came to his knowledge shall be conclusive evidence of that date.