Regulation 27 Ships: licensing offences

After regulation 66 (trade: licensing offences), insert—

“Ships: licensing offences

66A

(1)

A person (P”) commits an offence if P knowingly or recklessly—

(a)

provides information that is false in a material respect, or

(b)

provides or produces a document that is not what it purports to be, for the purpose of obtaining a ships licence (whether for P or anyone else).

(2)

A person who purports to act under the authority of a ships licence but who fails to comply with any condition of the licence commits an offence.

(3)

A licence in respect of which an offence under paragraph (1) has been committed is to be treated as void from the time at which it was issued.”.