Article 3 Offences

(1)

Where there is, in respect of—

(a)

any British fishing boat wherever it may be; or

(b)

any other fishing boat which is within British fishery limits,

a contravention of, or failure to comply with, any provision of the Council Regulation or second Commission Regulation specified in Schedule 1, as read with any qualifying words relating thereto in that Schedule, the master, owner, charterer (if any) and any other person responsible for the vessel, shall each be guilty of an offence.

(2)

Any person who in purported compliance with article 5, 6, 7 or 8 of the Council Regulation, as read with article 1, 2 or 3 of the first Commission Regulation, furnishes information which he knows to be false in a material particular or recklessly furnishes information which is false in a material particular shall be guilty of an offence.