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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/chemical-weapons-overseas-territories-order-2005/schedule-2/paragraph-54",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/854",
  "legislation_title": "The Chemical Weapons (Overseas Territories) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/chemical-weapons-overseas-territories-order-2005",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/54",
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  "number": "54",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) A person who knowingly or recklessly makes a false or misleading statement for the purpose of obtaining (or opposing the variation or withdrawal of) authorisation for the purposes of section 50 is guilty of an offence.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) is liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding £5,000 or its equivalent;\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or a fine (or both).\n(3) Where an offence under section 50 or subsection (1) above 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—\n(a) a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate; or\n(b) any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity,\nhe as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.\n(4) In subsection (3) “director”, in relation to a body corporate whose affairs are managed by its members, means a member of the body corporate.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/854/schedule/2/paragraph/54",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:02:05.459828+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."
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