{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arable-area-payments-regulations-1996/regulation-19",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/3142",
  "legislation_title": "The Arable Area Payments Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arable-area-payments-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Offences and penalties",
  "text": "(1) If any person fails to comply with an obligation imposed on him by regulation 13 or 14 he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(2) If any person–\n(a) intentionally obstructs an authorised person in the exercise of a power conferred on him by regulation 17; or\n(b) fails without reasonable excuse to comply with a requirement of an authorised person directed at him under regulation 17(4)(a) or (c) or with a request made to him under regulation 18,\nhe shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(3) If any person for the purpose of obtaining the whole or any part of a compensatory payment or in purported compliance with any requirement directed at him under regulation 17(4) knowingly or recklessly furnishes information which is false or misleading in a material respect he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.\n(4) Proceedings for an offence under paragraph (1), (2) or (3) above may, subject to paragraph (5) below, in England and Wales be brought, and in Scotland commenced, within the period of six months from the date on which evidence sufficient in the opinion of the prosecutor to justify proceedings came to his knowledge.\n(5) No proceedings under paragraph (2) or (3) above shall be brought, or as the case may be commenced, by virtue of this regulation more than 12 months after the commission of the offence.\n(6) For the purposes of this regulation, a certificate signed by or on behalf of the prosecutor and stating the date on which evidence sufficient in his opinion to warrant the proceedings came to his knowledge shall be conclusive evidence of that fact.\n(7) A certificate stating that matter and purporting to be so signed shall be deemed to be so signed unless the contrary is proved.\n(8) In relation to proceedings in Scotland, subsection (3) of section 136 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (date of commencement of proceedings) shall apply for the purposes of this regulation as it applies for the purposes of that section.\n(9) Where an offence under this regulation which has been committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or similar officer of the body corporate, or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he as well as the body corporate shall be deemed to be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.\n(10) Where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, the provisions of paragraph (9) above shall apply in relation to the acts and defaults of a member in connection with his functions of management as if he were a director of the body corporate.\n(11) In paragraphs (9) and (10) above references to a “body corporate” include references to a Scottish partnership and, in relation to such a partnership, any reference to a director or other officer of a body corporate is a reference to a partner.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c. 46."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/3142/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:29:39.754589+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."
}