Offences

11.  A person responsible for animals who—

(a) without lawful authority or reasonable excuse—

(i) contravenes or fails to comply with any provision of these Regulations;

(ii) fails to comply with a notice served under regulation 8 within the time specified in the notice;

(b) makes any entry in a record, or gives any information for the purposes of these Regulations which that person knows to be false in any material particular or, for those purposes, recklessly makes a statement or recklessly gives any information which is false in any material particular; or

(c) causes or permits any of the above,

is guilty of an offence and will be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months, or both.