Subsection (1) makes it an offence for a person, in connection with a glue trap licence application, to (a) make a statement or representation, or provide a document or information, which the person knows to be false in a material particular, or (b) recklessly make a statement or representation, or provide a document or information, which is false in a material particular.
	Subsection (2) specifies that a person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 51 weeks or a fine of any amount (or both).
	However, until section 281(5) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 comes into force, the maximum custodial sentence will be six months (see subsection (3)).
Commentary on provisions of Act Section 3: Offences in connection with licences