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The Alien and Locally Absent Species in Aquaculture Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012

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21.  It is an offence for a person —

(a)for the purpose of procuring the grant or amendment of a permit, -

(i)to make a statement which that person knows or suspects is false or misleading in a material particular; or

(ii)intentionally to fail to disclose any material particular;

(b)to abandon or allow to escape any aquatic organism, the movement of which took place under a permit or under a notice served under regulation 7(2)(b) or (3)(b) (movement of an Annex IV species) unless the person can show that all reasonable steps were taken and due diligence exercised to avoid the abandonment or escape;

(c)to fail, without reasonable cause, to give an inspector any assistance or information which the inspector may reasonably require for the purposes of the inspector’s functions under these Regulations;

(d)intentionally to obstruct an inspector; or

(e)knowingly to give false or misleading information to an inspector.

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I1Reg. 21 in operation at 15.10.2012, see reg. 1

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