The Trade in Goods (Control) (Overseas Territories) Order 2004

Offences and penalties

9.—(1) Any person who contravenes a prohibition in paragraph 3 or 4 shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £5,000 or the equivalent.

(2) Any person knowingly concerned in the supply, delivery, transfer, acquisition or disposal of any restricted or controlled goods with intent to evade any prohibition or restriction in paragraph 3(1) or 4 shall be guilty of an offence.

(3) Any person knowingly concerned in the supply or delivery of any restricted goods with intent to evade any prohibition or restriction in paragraph 3(2) shall be guilty of an offence.

(4) A person guilty of an offence under sub-paragraph (2) or (3) shall be liable —

(a) on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £5,000 or the equivalent or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to both; or

(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine of any amount, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years, or to both.

(5) Where any body corporate is guilty of an offence under this Order, and that offence is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he, as well as the body corporate, shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

(6) Summary proceedings for an offence under this Order, being an offence alleged to have been committed outside the Territory, may be instituted at any time not later than 12 months from the date on which the person charged first enters the Territory after committing the offence.

(7) Proceedings against any person for an offence under this Order may be taken before the appropriate court in the Territory having jurisdiction where that person is for the time being.

(8) No proceedings for an offence under this Order shall be instituted in the Territory except by or with the consent of the principal public officer of the Territory having responsibility for criminal prosecutions, but this sub-paragraph shall not prevent the arrest, or the issue or the execution of a warrant for the arrest, of any person in respect of such an offence, or the remand in custody or on bail of any person charged with such an offence, notwithstanding that the necessary consent to the institution of proceedings has not been obtained.