{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensing-act-2003/section-158",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensing-act-2003/section-158.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/17",
  "legislation_title": "Licensing Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensing-act-2003",
  "path": "section/158",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "158",
  "heading": "False statements made for the purposes of this Act",
  "text": "(1) A person commits an offence if he knowingly or recklessly makes a false statement in or in connection with—\n(a) an application for the grant, variation, transfer or review of a premises licence or club premises certificate,\n(b) an application for a provisional statement,\n(c) a temporary event notice, an interim authority notice or any other notice under this Act,\n(d) an application for the grant ... of a personal licence, or\n(e) a notice within section 178(1) (notice by freeholder etc. conferring right to be notified of changes to licensing register).\n(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) a person is to be treated as making a false statement if he produces, furnishes, signs or otherwise makes use of a document that contains a false statement.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 158(1)(d) omitted (1.4.2015) by virtue of Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), s. 115(7), Sch. 18 para. 12 (with s. 69(2)(3)); S.I. 2015/994, art. 2(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/17/section/158",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:08:59.105892+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}