{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/international-carriage-of-perishable-foodstuffs-act-1976-amendment-order-1983/schedule/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/international-carriage-of-perishable-foodstuffs-act-1976-amendment-order-1983/schedule/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1983/1123",
  "legislation_title": "The International Carriage of Perishable Foodstuffs Act 1976 (Amendment) Order 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/international-carriage-of-perishable-foodstuffs-act-1976-amendment-order-1983",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 9 (forgery of certificates of compliance) after subsection (1) there shall be inserted the following subsections—\n“(2) Any person who, with intent to deceive—\n(a) forges, or alters, or uses or lends to, or allows to be used by, any other person, a certification plate, or\n(b) makes or has in his possession a plate so closely resembling a certification plate as to be calculated to deceive,\nshall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable as mentioned in paragraphs (i) and (ii) of subsection (1) above.\n(3) In the application of subsection (2) above to England, Wales and Northern Ireland “forges” means makes a false plate in order that it may be used as genuine. ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1983/1123/schedule/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T17:59:08.375640+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."
}