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

6.—(1) A person is guilty of an offence if, for the purposes of obtaining any licence he—

(a)makes any statement or furnishes any document or information which to his knowledge is false in a material particular,

(b)recklessly makes any statement or furnishes any document or information which is false in a material particular, or

(c)fails, without reasonable excuse, to make a statement or furnish any document or information which may be relevant to the application for the licence.

(2) A person who does any act under the authority of a licence granted by the Treasury and who fails to comply with any conditions attaching to that licence is guilty of an offence.

(3) A person is not guilty of an offence under paragraph (2) where he proves that the condition with which he failed to comply was modified, otherwise than with his consent, after the doing of the act authorised by the licence.