PART 9Exceptions and licences
Finance: licensing offences95.
(1)
A person (“P”) commits an offence if P knowingly or recklessly—
(a)
provides information that is false in a material respect, or
(b)
provides or produces a document that is not what it purports to be,
for the purpose of obtaining a Treasury licence or Treasury direction (whether for P or anyone else).
(2)
A person who purports to act under the authority of a Treasury licence, or who is excepted from a requirement by a Treasury direction, but who fails to comply with any condition of the licence or direction commits an offence.