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Obligation to furnish information.
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15.—(1) Every person who applies to the Minister under the Principal Act or this Act for registration in a register of importers or for a licence to import goods shall, when required by the Minister so to do, furnish to the Minister all such information as the Minister may require for the consideration of such application.
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(2) The Minister may require any statement of fact made or any particulars given in any such application as is mentioned in the next preceding sub-section of this section or made or given (as the case may be) to the Minister in response to a request for information under the said sub-section to be verified in either or both of the following ways, that is to say, by the statutory declaration of some person having personal knowledge of the facts so stated or by the furnishing of such returns and figures certified by such person and in such manner as the Minister shall consider necessary.
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(3) If any person in an application under the Principal Act or this Act for registration in a register of importers or for a licence to import goods or in furnishing any information in response to a requisition of the Minister under this section makes any statement which is false or misleading in any material respect, such person shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.
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(4) If any person fails to furnish any information or any verification which such person is required by the Minister under this section to furnish, the Minister may, on the ground of such failure and without prejudice to any other power of refusal conferred on him by the Principal Act or this Act, refuse the application in relation to which such information or verification was so required.
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