Part V Enforcement, Offences and Proceedings

Offences as to licences, declarations, certificates and instruments

C5C1C2C4C6C3C9C8C7C1071 Other offences as to licences.

A person is guilty of an offence against this Act—

a

who, with intent unlawfully to evade this Act, or an order of the Minister, or a regulation of a local authority, does anything for which a licence is requisite under this Act, or such an order or regulation, without having obtained a licence; or

b

who, where a licence is so requisite, having obtained a licence, with the like intent does the thing licensed after the licence has expired; or

c

who uses or offers or attempts to use as such a licence—

i

an instrument not being a complete licence, or

ii

an instrument untruly purporting or appearing to be a licence,

unless he shows to the court’s satisfaction that he did not know of that incompleteness or untruth, and that he could not with reasonable diligence have obtained knowledge of it.