# The Controlled Drugs (Drug Precursors)(Community External Trade) Regulations 2008, Regulation 9: Offences and penalties: general

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) Any reference in regulation 6, 7 or 8 to a person who fails to comply with any of the requirements of the Community Regulation includes a person, who in purported compliance with the Community Regulation—
(a) furnishes information which he knows to be false in a material particular; or
(b) recklessly furnishes information which is false in a material particular.
(2) The penalties specified for the purposes of this paragraph are—
(a) on summary conviction, imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or both;
(b) on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or a fine or both.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/296/regulation/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/controlled-drugs-drug-precursorscommunity-external-trade-regulations-2008/regulation-9
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