9Penalty for offences and offences by bodies corporate
(1)A person guilty of an offence under any provision of this Act except section 6 or 7 is liable—
(a)on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum; and
(b)on conviction on indictment, to a fine.
(2)A person guilty of an offence under section 6 or 7 is liable—
(a)on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum; and
(b)on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine (or both).
(3)Where an offence under this Act committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of—
(a)a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate; or
(b)a person who was purporting to act in any such capacity,
he as well as the body corporate is guilty of that offence and liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
(4)In subsection (3) “director”, in the case of a body corporate whose affairs are managed by its members, means a member of the body corporate.
(5)Where an offence under this Act committed by a Scottish partnership is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, a partner, he as well as the partnership is guilty of the offence and may be proceeded against and punished accordingly.