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PART 2Public Health and the Environment

Advertising

9Certificates of conviction for purposes of section 8

(1)Where—

(a)on any date after section 8 (automatic minimum fine on third conviction for fly posting or shroud advertisement offence) of this Act came into force a person is convicted of a fly posting or shroud advertisement offence; and

(b)the court by or before which he is so convicted states in open court that he has been convicted of such an offence on that date; and

(c)that court subsequently certifies that fact,

the certificate shall be evidence, for the purposes of the said section 8, that he was convicted of such an offence on that date.

(2)Where—

(a)on any date after the said section 8 came into force a person is convicted of a fly posting or shroud advertisement offence; and

(b)the court by or before which he is so convicted states in open court that the offence was committed on a particular day or over, or at some time during, a particular period; and

(c)that court subsequently certifies that fact,

the certificate shall be evidence, for the purposes of the said section 8, that the offence was committed on that day or over, or at some time during, that period.