{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-control-liberia-order-2006/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-control-liberia-order-2006/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/2065",
  "legislation_title": "The Export Control (Liberia) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-control-liberia-order-2006",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Authorisation for the transactions set out in article 3 shall in the United Kingdom be by way of a licence in writing granted by the Secretary of State.\n(2) If, for the purpose of obtaining a licence, a person—\n(a) makes any statement or furnishes any document or information which to his knowledge is false in a material particular; or\n(b) recklessly makes any statement or furnishes any document or information which is false in a material particular,\nthat person shall be guilty of an offence; and any licence granted in connection with the application for which the false statement was made or the false document or information furnished shall be void as from the time it was granted.\n(3) A person who, having acted under the authority of a licence granted under this Order, fails to comply with any of the requirements or conditions to which the licence is subject shall be guilty of an offence, unless—\n(a) the licence had been modified by the Secretary of State; and\n(b) the alleged failure to comply would not have been a failure had the licence not been so modified; and\n(c) the licence was modified after the doing of the act authorised by the licence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/2065/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:24:26.516240+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."
}