Supply of false information, etc.
13.  Any person who, being required by or by virtue of these Rules to provide any information or to make any declaration, statement or representation or to produce any document or who, for the purpose of securing the registration of a pesticide under these Rules —
(a)provides any information or makes or presents any declaration, statement or representation which, to his knowledge, is false in any material particular; or
(b)produces any document which, to his knowledge, is false in any material particular or has not been made by the person by whom it purports to have been made, or has been in any way altered or tampered with,
shall be guilty of an offence.