{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-diversification-programme-scotland-regulations-1995/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-diversification-programme-scotland-regulations-1995/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/3295",
  "legislation_title": "The Rural Diversification Programme (Scotland) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-diversification-programme-scotland-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "False statements",
  "text": "(1) If the eligible person, for the purposes of obtaining for himself or any other person any financial assistance under these Regulations, knowingly or recklessly makes a statement which is false in any material particular he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.\n(2) Summary proceedings for such an offence may be commenced at any time within 3 years after the commission of the offence and within 6 months after the relevant date and for the purposes of this paragraph proceedings shall be deemed to be commenced on the date on which a warrant to apprehend or to cite the accused is granted if such warrant is executed without undue delay.\n(3) In this regulation “the relevant date” means the date on which evidence sufficient in the opinion of the Procurator Fiscal to justify proceedings comes to his knowledge.\n(4) For the purposes of the foregoing paragraph a certificate of the Procurator Fiscal as to the date on which such evidence as is there mentioned came to his knowledge shall be conclusive evidence of that fact.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/3295/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:55:12.607152+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."
}