Section 20 Offences in connection with licences: WalesI1

England and Wales Not yet in force

(1)

A person who breaches the prohibition in section 19 (1) or (2) commits an offence.

(2)

A person commits an offence if—

(a)

the person provides information to a licensing authority—

(i)

in, or in connection with, an application for the grant of a personal licence or a premises licence, or

(ii)

in pursuance of any other obligation imposed by or under regulations made under section 19 (4),

(b)

the information is false or misleading in a material respect, and

(c)

the person knows, or ought reasonably to know, that the information is false or misleading in a material respect.

(3)

A person who commits an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a fine.

(4)

The court by which a person is convicted of an offence under subsection (1) may order the relevant products to which the offence relates, and any container for them, to be forfeited and either destroyed or dealt with in such other manner as the court may order.

(5)

In this section—

“grant” includes variation or renewal;
“licensing authority”, in relation to the doing of things or the use of premises in a county or county borough in Wales, means the council of the county or county borough;
“personal licence” has the meaning given by section 19 (8);
“premises licence” has the meaning given by section 19 (8);
“relevant product” has the meaning given by section 19 (8).

Annotations

Commencement

I1: S. 20 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 175(5)