Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1949

11 Amendments as to penalties under Destructive Insects Act, 1877.

An order made under section two of the Destructive Insects Act, 1877, as amended by any subsequent enactment, for preventing the spreading in Great Britain of the Colorado beetle may, instead of imposing penalties not exceeding ten pounds, or, in the case of a second or subsequent offence, not exceeding fifty pounds—

(a) provide that any person who is guilty of any offence under the order relating to the keeping of living specimens of the said insect in any stage of existence or to the distribution in any manner of such specimens, shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to both such fine and such imprisonment;

(b) provide that any person who is guilty of any other offence under the order shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds ;

and accordingly so much of the said section two as so amended as provides for the imposition, recovery and application of penalties shall cease to have effect in relation to offences under any such order as aforesaid.