Part V Enforcement, Offences and Proceedings

Offences as to licences, declarations, certificates and instruments

71 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.