{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-act-1967/section-69",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-act-1967/section-69.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1967/22",
  "legislation_title": "Agriculture Act 1967",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-act-1967",
  "path": "section/69",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "69",
  "heading": "False statements to obtain grants, etc.",
  "text": "(1) If any person, for the purpose of obtaining for himself or any other person—\n(a) any grant under this Act, . . .\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nc)-(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nor for the purpose of inducing the appropriate Minister or a Rural Development Board to make a loan or guarantee under section 28 or section 47 of this Act, knowingly or recklessly makes a false statement he shall be liable—\n(i) on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale or imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or both.\n(ii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) This section extends to Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 69 repealed (S.) (16.6.2025) by Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Act 2024 (asp 11), s. 38(2), sch. 2 Pt. 1; S.S.I. 2025/167, reg. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1986 (c. 12), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 69(1)(b) repealed by Agriculture Act 1970 (c. 40), ss. 29(6)(7), 113(3), Sch. 5 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 69(c)–(e) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1986 (c. 12), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), ss. 38, 46, (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), ss. 289F, 289G and (N.I.) S.I. 1984/703 (N.I. 3), arts. 5, 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 69(1)(ii) repealed by Theft Act 1968 (c. 60), Sch. 3 Pt. I and Theft Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 (c. 16), Sch. 3 Pt. I"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2003/44",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice Act 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1967/22/section/69",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:55:48.999508+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."
}