{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-agriculture-wales-regulations-2017/regulation-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-agriculture-wales-regulations-2017/regulation-23.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2017/565",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Impact Assessment (Agriculture) (Wales) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-agriculture-wales-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Offence of procuring a decision by supplying false information",
  "text": "(1) It is an offence for a person who, for the purpose of procuring a particular decision on an application made under these Regulations—\n(a) knowingly or recklessly makes a statement which is false or misleading in a material particular,\n(b) with intent to deceive, uses a document that is false or misleading in a material particular, or\n(c) with intent to deceive, withholds material information.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (1) is liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum; or\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 23 in force at 16.5.2017, see reg. 1(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2017/565/regulation/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:26:36.212209+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."
}