PART 5Offences and Penalties
Offences and penalties
22.—(1) It is an offence to fail to comply with a notice served under regulation 19.
(2) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (1) is liable—
(a)on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding three months; or
(b)on conviction on indictment, to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.
(3) For the purposes of these Regulations section 20(2) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 applies with the omission of the words “the liability of whose members is limited” and where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, applies in relation to the acts or defaults of a member in connection with their functions of management as if they were a director of the body corporate.