Offences in connection with applications for licences, conditions attaching to licences, etc.

article 12(1) of The Angola (United Nations Sanctions) (Channel Islands) Order 1997

• Status not determined
• Requires proof of a state of mind
• Either way
• Courts, police, prisons and the administration of justice

This offence was read from the text as made, and no revised version was available, so a later revocation could not be ruled out. Check the current text at legislation.gov.uk.

What the provision says

1 If for the purposes of obtaining any licence under this Order any person makes any statement or furnishes any document or information which to his knowledge is false in

a material particular or recklessly makes any statement or furnishes any document or information which is false in

a material particular he shall be guilty of an offence under this Order.

Text as made, from legislation.gov.uk. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This is the text as originally made; later amendments are not shown here.

Who it binds, and what has to be proved

Binds

a person

Conduct

making a false or misleading statement

Fault element

Requires proof of a state of mind

Burden of proof

No statutory defence — prosecution proves everything

The prosecution must prove both that the conduct happened and that it was done with the state of mind the provision names (recklessly).

The provision states no defence, so the prosecution bears the burden on every element of the offence.

Classifier’s reasoning: mens rea word in the offence-creating words: recklessly.

What would breach article 12(1)?

These are illustrations, not law. They are generated from the provision’s own words to show the shape of the offence. Whether any particular conduct is caught depends on the full text, on any amendment since, and on the facts.

1. Entering a figure on a form or return that is known to be wrong under the Angola (United Nations Sanctions) (Channel Islands) Order 1997.
2. Leaving out something the form asks for, where the omission is what makes the answer misleading.
3. Producing a document to an official that has been altered since it was issued.

Penalty

Mode of trial

Either way — magistrates’ court or Crown Court

Maximum fine

Not determined

Standard scale

Level 5

Maximum prison (summary)

6 months

Maximum prison (on indictment)

2 years

the level is stated but no money value is given: this instrument extends outside the United Kingdom, where the standard scale set by s.122(1) of the Sentencing Act 2020 does not run.

Sentencing

Offences of this kind are usually sentenced under the guidelines below. This is a mapping by subject, not a finding about this provision, and the links go to a search of the Sentencing Council’s own site.

• Imposition of community and custodial sentences: definitive guideline All courts in England and Wales

  When a community order or custody is justified at all, and the presumption against short custodial sentences.

• Reduction in sentence for a guilty plea: definitive guideline All courts in England and Wales · in force from 1 June 2017

  The sliding scale of credit for pleading guilty, from one third at the first stage of proceedings downwards.

• General guideline: overarching principles All courts in England and Wales · in force from 1 October 2019

  The guideline a court uses when there is no offence-specific guideline, which is the position for the overwhelming majority of offences created by statutory instrument. It sets out how culpability and harm are assessed from first principles.

• Totality: definitive guideline All courts in England and Wales

  How to sentence more than one offence at once so that the total is just and proportionate - frequently in point here, because regulatory prosecutions commonly charge several breaches of the same instrument.

Prosecution figures

No published per-offence figure was found for this provision, and it could not be matched to a Ministry of Justice offence code. Offences created by statutory instrument very largely do not have one. Absence of a figure is not evidence that the offence is unused.

Status and lifecycle

Current status

Status not determined

Made

30 October 1997

In force from

1 November 1997

Extent

Not stated

How this was established: read from the text as made; no revised version available, so later revocation could not be ruled out.

What the instrument is for

(This note is not part of the Order) — the explanatory note published with the instrument, © Crown copyright.

This Order, made under the United Nations Act 1946, imposes in the Channel Islands restrictions pursuant to a decision of the Security Council of the United Nations in Resolution No. 1127 of 28th August 1997 on the export to Angola and the supply to persons in Angola of aircraft and aircraft components. It restricts certain related activities including the carriage of aircraft and aircraft components destined for Angola in ships, aircraft and vehicles and the servicing and insurance of Angolan aircraft. This Order does not affect the Angola (United Nations Sanctions) (Channel Islands) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/2357).

Read the full note and every offence in this instrument

Other offences in the same instrument

• Powers to demand evidence of destination which goods reacharticle 11
• Any person who has done any act under the authority of a licence granted by the Lieutenant Governor or, as…article 12(2)
• Declaration as to goods: powers of searcharticle 13(2)
• Declaration as to goods: powers of searcharticle 13(3)
• Investigation, etc. of suspected ships, aircraft and vehiclesarticle 14(10)
• Carriage of aircraft and aircraft components destined for Angolaarticle 5(3)
• UNITA Officesarticle 9(2)
• Any person who— a without reasonable excuse, refuses or fails within the time and in the manner specified…paragraph 5 of SCHEDULE

How this was identified as an offence

Everything above rests on the judgement that this provision creates a criminal offence, rather than mentioning one. That judgement is made by rule, from the words of the provision, and this is the rule that made it — with a confidence of 0.92.

Basis

the provision says a person is “guilty of an offence”

Confidence

0.92 of 1.00

A provision that states a penalty for an offence created elsewhere can read very like one that creates an offence, and the rules can mistake the one for the other. If the text quoted above sets a penalty for something made an offence by another provision, treat the classification on this page with that in mind, and read the instrument.

Check the source

• This provision on legislation.gov.uk The authoritative text. Check it before relying on anything here.
• The Angola (United Nations Sanctions) (Channel Islands) Order 1997 Every offence this instrument creates, and its explanatory note
• Courts, police, prisons and the administration of justiceOther offences on the same subject
• Offences created in 1997