5.—(1) If any person contravenes or fails to comply with any of the foregoing provisions of these Regulations he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3) below, each food authority shall enforce within its area the provisions of these Regulations.
(3) In this regulation “food authority” does not include–
(a)the council of a district in a non-metropolitan county in England and Wales, and
(b)the appropriate Treasurer referred to in section 5(1)(c) of the Act (which deals with the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple).