Scrap Iron (Control of Export) Act, 1938

Licences.

4.—(1) On the application of any person the Minister may, if he so thinks fit, issue to such person a licence to export within a specified time a specified quantity of scrap iron or of scrap steel or of any particular classes or class of scrap iron or of scrap steel the export of which is for the time being prohibited by an order made under this Act.

(2) Whenever the Minister issues a licence under this section he may do all or any of the following things, that is to say:—

(a) attach to such licence such conditions as he shall think proper and shall specify in such licence;

(b) limit such licence to specified articles or a specified consignment of articles;

(c) restrict the exportation under such licence to exportation from a specified port or place or by a specified route, or to a specified country or a specified port or place.

(3) Every person who, for the purpose of obtaining for himself or any other person a licence under this section, makes any statement or representation which is to his knowledge false or misleading in a material respect shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding twenty-five pounds.