{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conservation-of-habitats-and-species-regulations-2017/regulation-59",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conservation-of-habitats-and-species-regulations-2017/regulation-59.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/1012",
  "legislation_title": "The Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conservation-of-habitats-and-species-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/59",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "59",
  "heading": "False statements made for obtaining licence",
  "text": "(1) A person (“P”) commits an offence if, for the purposes of obtaining, whether for P or another, the grant of a licence under regulation 55 or 56, P—\n(a) makes a statement or representation, or supplies a document or information, which P knows to be false in a material particular; or\n(b) recklessly makes a statement or representation, or supplies a document or information, which is false in a material particular.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under this regulation is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine, or to both.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/1012/regulation/59",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:07:21.486081+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."
}