Offences in respect of licences, production notifications, etc.
Version Date:
23/07/1999
(1) Any person, who, in respect of-
(a) an application for the issue of a licence;
(b) an application for registration under this Ordinance;
(c) any production notification, declaration, document or article required to be lodged with the Director, an authorized officer or member of the Customs and Excise Service pursuant to the provisions of this Ordinance; or
(d) any particulars or information provided to the Director, an authorized officer or member of the Customs and Excise Service in connection with the requirements of this Ordinance, (Added 37 of 1999 s. 7)
makes or causes to be made any statement or furnishes or causes to be furnished any information which is false or misleading in a material particular or omits any material particular shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $500000 and to imprisonment for 2 years, unless he satisfies the court or magistrate that he did not know and had no reason to believe the statement or information to be false or misleading or the omission to be material. (Amended 3 of 1984 s. 3; 30 of 1995 s. 13)
(1A) A person who fails to comply with-
(a) any provision of section 6AB; or
(b) any condition imposed on a validated production notification,
commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of $500000 and to imprisonment for 2 years. (Added 37 of 1999 s. 7)
(2) Any person who-
(a) forges any licence or validated production notification;
(b) without the authority of the Director makes any alteration to any licence or validated production notification; or
(c) knowingly utters or makes use of any licence or validated production notification that has been forged or, without the authority of the Director, altered,
commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of $500000 and to imprisonment for 2 years. (Replaced 3 of 1984 s. 3)
(3) Any person who furnishes or causes to be furnished to another person a production notification that-
(a) he knows or has reason to believe may be lodged with the Director for validation; and
(b) has been signed by him in blank or with the material particulars incomplete,
commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of $500000 and to imprisonment for 2 years. (Added 37 of 1999 s. 7)
(4) For the purpose of this section, "material particular" (要項), in relation to a production notification, means material particular as defined in section 6AA(1). (Added 37 of 1999 s. 7)