http://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2002/675/regulation/17/madeThe Fisheries and Aquaculture Structures (Grants) (Wales) Regulations 2002Fisheries and aquacultureCommunity grantsKing's Printer of Acts of Parliament2014-01-30SEA FISHERIES, WALES;SEA FISH INDUSTRYFISH FARMING, WALESThese Regulations, which apply in relation to Wales only, supplement the Community legislation as defined and listed in regulation 2 (“the Community legislation”). The Community legislation provides, inter alia, for assistance (“Community aid”) to be paid from the Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance (“FIFG”) in respect of certain categories of investments, projects and actions (“relevant operations”) in the fisheries and aquaculture sector and the industry sector processing and marketing its products.17Offences and penalties1

If any person, for the purposes of obtaining financial assistance for himself or any other person—

a

in furnishing any information in purported compliance with a requirement imposed by or under regulation 4(1) or (3) or 13(5)(a) knowingly or recklessly makes a statement which is false or misleading in a material particular; or

b

in purported compliance with a requirement imposed under regulation 13(5)(a) or (c) knowingly or recklessly produces a document which is false or misleading in a material particular,

that person shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.

2

If any person—

a

fails to comply with the requirement imposed under regulation 9 or by regulation 10 above;

b

fails to comply with a request made under regulation 12 above; or

c

intentionally refuses to supply any information, make any return, or produce any document when required to do so by, or otherwise intentionally obstructs, an authorised officer (or a person accompanying him or her and acting on that officer’s instructions) acting in exercise of a power conferred by regulation 13 above,

that person shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

3

Proceedings for an offence under paragraph (1) or (2) above may, subject to paragraph (4) below, be commenced within the period of six months from the date on which evidence sufficient in the opinion of the prosecutor to justify the proceedings comes to his knowledge.

4

No such proceedings shall be commenced by virtue of this regulation more than five years after the commission of the offence.

5

For the purposes of this regulation—

a

a certificate signed by or on behalf of the prosecutor and stating the date on which evidence sufficient in his opinion to justify the proceedings came to his knowledge shall be conclusive evidence sufficient of that fact; and

b

a certificate stating that matter purporting to be so signed shall be deemed to be so signed unless the contrary is proved.

6

When an offence under this regulation which has been committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of that offence and be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

7

If the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, paragraph (6) above shall apply in relation to the acts and defaults of a member in connection with his functions of management as if he were a director of the body corporate.

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