INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT (GENERAL ASSISTANCE) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966

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INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT (GENERAL ASSISTANCE) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 10



10.(1) Without prejudice to section 9(3), in making a grant or loan under
this Act in respect of any asset the Ministry shall impose such conditions as
it thinks fit for securing that the asset will continue to be used as required
by the provision under which the grant or loan is made and, where the grant is
made under section 6, for restricting the chartering of the ship concerned;
and such conditions may include (in the case of a grant) conditions for
repayment in specified circumstances.

(2) The Ministry may by notice require any person who has received a grant or
loan under this Act, and any person acting on his behalf, to furnish to
the Ministry such information, or to produce for examination on behalf of
the Ministry such books, records or other documents, as may be specified in
the notice for the purpose of enabling the Ministry to determine whether any
condition subject to which the grant or loan is made is satisfied or is being
complied with or whether the grant has become repayable in whole or in part,
or the loan has become repayable on terms other than the terms on which it
would otherwise have been repayable, in accordance with any such condition.

(3) Subject to subsection (4), a notice under subsection (2) may require the
information to which it relates to be furnished within such time as may be
specified in the notice, and may require the documents to which it relates to
be produced at such time and place as may be so specified.

(4) The time specified in a notice under subsection (2) for furnishing any
information or producing any document shall not be earlier than the end of the
period of twenty-eight days beginning with the service of the notice.

(5) Any person duly authorised in that behalf by the Ministry may for the
purposes mentioned in subsection (2), on production (if so required) of
written evidence of his authority, at all reasonable times enter and inspect
any premises where any asset in respect of which a grant or loan under
this Act has been made is, or in accordance with any condition attached to the
grant or loan should be, and require any person appearing to him to have
charge of those premises to produce or identify the asset for inspection.

(6) Any person who in purported compliance with a notice under subsection (2)
knowingly or recklessly makes any statement or produces any document which is
false in a material particular shall be guilty of an offence and liable on
summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, or to
imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to both, or on
conviction on indictment to a fine, or to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding two years, or to both.

(7) Any person who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with a notice
under subsection (2) shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary
conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or, on a second or
subsequent conviction, three hundred pounds.

(8) Any person who wilfully obstructs any person in the exercise of a right of
entry under subsection (5), or without reasonable excuse fails to comply with
a requirement under that subsection, shall be guilty of an offence and liable
on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.

(9) Any person who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with any
condition subject to which a grant or loan was made to him under this Act
requiring him to inform the Ministry of any event whereby the grant becomes
repayable in whole or in part or the loan becomes repayable on terms other
than the terms on which it would have been repayable if the event had not
occurred shall be guilty of an offence and liable

(a)on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding three hundred pounds;

(b)on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding one thousand pounds or
three times the amount so repayable, whichever is the greater.

Subs.(10) rep. by 1980 NI 6 art.13 sch.2

S.11 rep. by 1969 c.16 (NI) s.31(2) sch.3 Pt.I

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INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT (GENERAL ASSISTANCE) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 10