Meat (Examinations for Residues) (Charges) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Offences

9.—(1) Any person who, without reasonable cause, fails to comply with regulation 8(a) or (b) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both.

(2) Any person who, in purported compliance with regulation 8 (a) or (b), furnishes information or evidence which he knows to be false or misleading in a material particular, or recklessly furnishes information or evidence which is false or misleading in a material particular, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable–

(a)on conviction on indictment, to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both;

(b)in summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both.