{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-authorisations-scotland-regulations-2018/regulation-69",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-authorisations-scotland-regulations-2018/regulation-69.json",
  "legislation": "sdsi/2018/9780111039014",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-authorisations-scotland-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/69",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "69",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) A person commits an offence if the person—\n(a) contravenes regulation 7;\n(b) is an authorised person and fails to comply with regulation 8;\n(c) fails to comply with or contravenes a general binding rule;\n(d) fails to comply with or contravenes a condition of a registration;\n(e) fails to comply with or contravenes a condition of a permit;\n(f) fails to comply with the requirements of a regulatory notice;\n(g) fails to comply with the requirements of a revocation notice;\n(h) fails to comply, without reasonable excuse, with the requirements of a notice issued under regulation 37(1) (power to require provision of information);\n(i) fails to comply with an order made by a court under regulation 75;\n(j) makes a statement which that person knows to be false or misleading in a material particular, or recklessly makes a statement which is false or misleading in a material particular, if the statement is made—\n(i) in purported compliance with a requirement by an enforcing officer in exercise of that officer’s powers or duties;\n(ii) in purported compliance with a requirement imposed by or under these Regulations; or\n(iii) for the purpose of obtaining an authorisation, or securing the variation, transfer or surrender of an authorisation;\n(k) intentionally makes a false entry in any record required to be kept—\n(i) as a condition of an authorisation; or\n(ii) in compliance with a requirement imposed by or under these Regulations;\n(l) with intent to deceive, forges or uses an authorisation or a document issued or authorised to be issued under a condition of a registration or permit or required for any purpose under a condition of such a registration or permit or makes or possesses a document so closely resembling any such authorisation or document so as to be likely to deceive; or\n(m) causes or permits any other person to commit an offence under sub-paragraphs (a) to (k).\n(2) A person commits an offence if the person—\n(a) refuses, wilfully neglects, or fails without reasonable excuse to attend a hearing which they are required to attend by a notice under paragraph 23 of schedule 4 to give evidence;\n(b) wilfully alters, suppresses, conceals, destroys or refuses to produce any book or other document which the person is required, or is liable to be required, to produce by a notice under paragraph 23 of schedule 4; or\n(c) causes or permits any other person to commit an offence under sub-paragraph (a) or (b).\n(3) A person who commits an offence under paragraph (1) is liable—\n(a) on summary conviction—\n(i) to a fine not exceeding £40,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months, or to both; and\n(ii) in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding £250 for every day during which the offence is continued after conviction;\n(b) on conviction on indictment—\n(i) to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years, or to both; and\n(ii) in the case of a continuing offence to a further fine not exceeding £1,000 for every day during which the offence is continued after conviction.\n(4) A person who commits an offence under paragraph (2) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to both.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2018/9780111039014/regulation/69",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:33:18.087935+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."
}