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

article 12(1) of The Iraq (United Nations Sanctions) (Isle of Man) Order 2003

• Status not determined
• Requires proof of a state of mind
• Summary only
• International sanctions, export control and trade restrictions

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 purpose 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.

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 This is the text as originally made; later amendments are not shown here.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 (for the purpose of obtaining, 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, for the purpose of obtaining.

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 Iraq (United Nations Sanctions) (Isle of Man) Order 2003.
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

Summary only — tried in a magistrates’ court

Maximum fine

Not determined

Standard scale

Level 5

Maximum prison (summary)

Not determined

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.

No penalty was determined from this instrument. It may be in the enabling Act, or in a general penalties provision this pass did not connect to the offence. Absence of a figure here is not evidence that the offence carries no penalty.

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.

• Sentencing organisations: fines and the means of a corporate defendant All courts in England and Wales

  How a fine on a company is arrived at from its turnover. Relevant far beyond the guidelines that state it, because a very large share of the offences in this corpus can only be committed by an organisation.

• Fraud, bribery and money laundering offences: definitive guideline Magistrates' courts and the Crown Court in England and Wales · in force from 1 October 2014

  Covers fraud, false accounting, bribery and money laundering, including offences committed by organisations.

• 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

12 June 2003

In force from

14 June 2003

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, gives effect in the Isle of Man to the decision of the Security Council of the United Nations in Resolution 1483 of 22nd May 2003. It revokes an earlier Order which gave effect certain aspects of United Nations sanctions against Iraq. It amends the Iraq (United Nations Sanctions)(Isle of Man) Order 2000, continues the prohibition of the sale or supply of arms and related materiel to Iraq, prohibits holding or dealing in any item of illegally removed Iraqi cultural property and grants privileges and immunities to the Development Fund for Iraq and petroleum, petroleum products and natural gas originating in Iraq and proceeds and obligations arising from sales thereof.

Read the full note and every offence in this instrument

Other offences in the same instrument

• Customs 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 Treasury under this Order…article 12
• Any person who has done any act under the authority of a licence granted by the Treasury under this Order…article 12(2)
• Declaration as to goods: powers of searcharticle 13(3)
• Declaration as to goods: powers of searcharticle 13(4)
• Provisions supplementary to articles 14 to 16article 17(3)
• Supply of restricted goodsarticle 5(1)
• Use of ships, aircraft and vehicles: restricted goodsarticle 7(3)
• Illegally removed Iraqi cultural propertyarticle 8
• Illegally removed Iraqi cultural propertyarticle 8(2)
• Illegally removed Iraqi cultural propertyarticle 8(3)
• 1 Any person who, except under the authority of a licence granted by the Treasury under article 5, makes any…paragraph 2 of SCHEDULE 1

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 Iraq (United Nations Sanctions) (Isle of Man) Order 2003 Every offence this instrument creates, and its explanatory note
• International sanctions, export control and trade restrictionsOther offences on the same subject
• Offences created in 2003