# The Hops Certification Regulations 1979, Regulation 9: Removal, falsification, etc. of marks or certificates; false entries

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

(1) If any person—
(a) without due authority and with intent to deceive, removes, alters, conceals or defaces any certificate, or any prescribed seal or mark, lawfully applied to, accompanying or relating to any hops or hop products;
(b) without due authority and with intent to deceive applies to any hops or hop products, any certificate or any prescribed seal or mark;
(c) with intent to deceive applies to any hops or hop products any document, seal or mark so closely resembling a certificate or a prescribed seal or mark as to be likely to deceive;
(d) knowingly makes a false entry in any declaration, certificate, book, account or record which is required by the EU provisions relevant provisions or these regulations to be made, issued, kept or produced, or, with intent to deceive, makes use of any such entry knowing the entry to be false;
he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or both.
(2) In this regulation “certificate” includes an attestation of equivalence provided for in Article 190 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/1095/regulation/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/hops-certification-regulations-1979/regulation-9
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