Article 2
1. A person guilty of an offence under article 4, 7, 8, 9 or 15 is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years or to a fine or to both.
2. A person guilty of an offence under article 6 or 10(10), paragraph 2(2)(b) or paragraph 3(6)(b) or (c) of Schedule 2, or paragraph 3(b), (c) or (d) of Schedule 6 is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine or to both.
3. A person guilty of an offence under paragraph 3(6)(a) of Schedule 2 or paragraph 3(a) or paragraph 5 of Schedule 6 is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine not exceeding £5,000 or its equivalent or to both.
4. A person guilty of an offence under paragraph 1, 2(2)(a) or 2(5) of Schedule 2 is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding £5,000 or its equivalent.
5. If an offence under this Order committed by a body corporate is shown—
(a)to have been committed with the consent or connivance of an officer of the body corporate, or
(b)to be attributable to any neglect on the part of an officer of the body corporate,
the officer as well as the body corporate is guilty of the offence and is liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
6. Proceedings against a person for an offence under this Order may be taken before the appropriate court in the Territory having jurisdiction in the place where that person is for the time being.
7. Proceedings for an offence under this Order must not be instituted in the Territory except with the consent of the Attorney General and Legal Adviser.
8. Nothing in paragraph 7 prevents—
(a)the arrest, or the issue or execution of a warrant for the arrest, of any person in respect of an offence, or
(b)the remand in custody or on bail of any person charged with an offence.