{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-and-contaminated-land-northern-ireland-order-1997/article-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-and-contaminated-land-northern-ireland-order-1997/article-18.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1997/2778",
  "legislation_title": "The Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-and-contaminated-land-northern-ireland-order-1997",
  "path": "article/18",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Offences of making false or misleading statements or false entries",
  "text": "(1) A person who—\n(a) in purported compliance with a requirement to furnish any information imposed by or under any provision of this Part, or\n(b) for the purpose of obtaining for himself or another any grant of a licence, any modification of the conditions of a licence, any acceptance of the surrender of a licence or any transfer of a licence,\nmakes a statement which he knows to be false or misleading in a material particular, or recklessly makes any statement which is false or misleading in a material particular, shall be guilty of an offence.\n(2) A person who intentionally makes a false entry in any record required to be kept by virtue of a licence shall be guilty of an offence.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under this Article shall be liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum; and\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to a fine or to both.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1997/2778/article/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:41:15.100824+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."
}