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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scrap-metal-dealers-act-2013/schedule-1/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2013/10",
  "legislation_title": "Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scrap-metal-dealers-act-2013",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "An applicant who in an application or in response to a request under paragraph 4(1)—\n(a) makes a statement knowing it be false in a material particular, or\n(b) recklessly makes a statement which is false in a material particular,\nis guilty of an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 5 in force at 1.12.2013 by S.I. 2013/1966, art. 4(g)"
    }
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  },
  "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."
}