The Meat (Official Controls Charges) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

Information

5.—(1) Any person shall, on demand being made by the Agency, supply —

(a)such information as the Agency may reasonably require for the purpose of calculating the official controls charge or notifying an operator of it; and

(b)such evidence as the Agency may reasonably require to enable it to verify information supplied under sub–paragraph (a).

(2) Any person who —

(a)without reasonable excuse, fails to comply within a reasonable time with a demand made under paragraph (1); or

(b)in purported compliance with paragraph (1), knowingly or recklessly supplies information or evidence which is false or misleading in a material particular;

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