Section 17 False statementsI1
(1)
A person who knowingly or recklessly makes, or causes to be made a statement or furnishes information which is false or misleading in any material particular for the purpose of—
(a)
obtaining the issue of a permit;
(b)
obtaining the variation of a permit;
(c)
preventing the issue or variation of a permit;
(d)
procuring or preventing the imposition of a condition in relation to a permit,
shall be guilty of an offence.
(2)
A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.
Annotations
Commencement
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S. 17 in operation at 5.10.2015 by S.R. 2015/284, art. 2(1), Sch.