HORTICULTURE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 23 Offences under Part III.

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HORTICULTURE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 23

Offences under Part III.

23.(1) A person shall be guilty of an offence if

(a)either by himself or by any servant or agent of his he sends or offers or
agrees or attempts to send produce to which this Part applies out of Northern
Ireland in contravention of any provision of this Part or of any regulations
made thereunder, or in breach of any condition of a licence issued to him
under this Part; or

(b)in connection with an application for, or the issue of, a licence under
this Part, he knowingly or recklessly makes any statement or furnishes any
information which is false in a material particular or in any material respect
misleading; or

(c)he fraudulently alters or uses or causes or permits to be fraudulently
altered or used any licence or other document issued under this Part, or any
label, seal, mark or indication prescribed under, or used for the purposes of,
this Part; or

(d)whether by affixing an incorrect label or mark to the container of any
processed produce, being produce to which this Part applies consigned out of
Northern Ireland of a description for which grades of quality have been
designated and defined under section 13(a), or to any package containing such
produce or in any other manner, he represents that any such produce the
quality of which is inferior to that required for a grade so designated and
defined falls within that grade; or

(e)on the demand of an authorised officer or a constable he does not give his
name and address or any information, or produce any licence, required under
section 21; or, on a demand made by or on behalf of a carrier under subsection
(3) of that section, he does not produce a licence as required by that
subsection.

(2) Section 6 shall apply to proceedings for an offence under subsection
(1)(d) in like manner as it applies to proceedings for an offence under
section 3.

Power to enter premises, etc., and examine horticultural produce.

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