Fish Health Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

Part VOffences and Penalties

Offences

20.—(1) Any person who contravenes, or fails to comply with, a provision of these Regulations or a provision or requirement of a notice served in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations, shall be guilty of an offence.

(2) Any person who for the purposes of procuring the issue of a movement document—

(a)make a statement which he knows to be false in a material particular;

(b)recklessly make a statement which is false in a material particular; or

(c)intentionally fail to disclose any material particular,

shall be guilty of an offence.

Penalties

21.—(1) A person who is guilty of an offence by reason of his failure to comply with provisions of regulation 12(1) shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.

(2) A person guilty of any other offence under these Regulations shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.