PART IV

General and Supplementary

Offences-penalties etc.
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1
A person guilty of an offence to which this subsection applies shall be liable—
a
on summary conviction, to a fine of an amount not exceeding the statutory maximum; and
b
on conviction on indictment, to a fine or to imprisonment for a term of not more than two years or to both.
2
The offences to which subsection (1) above applies are offences under sections 1(6), 2(4) and 9(1) above.
3
A person guilty of an offence to which this subsection applies shall be liable—
a
on summary conviction, to a fine of an amount not exceeding the statutory maximum ; and
b
on conviction on indictment, to a fine.
4
The offences to which subsection (3) above applies are offences under sections 9(2) and 16(12) above.
5
A person guilty of an offence under Schedule 2 to this Act shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of an amount not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.
6
Where an offence under this Act which has been committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, a 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 be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
7
Where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, subsection (6) above shall apply in relation to the acts and defaults of a member in connection with his functions of management as if he were a director of the body corporate.
8
Proceedings for any offence under this Act may be taken, and the offence may for all incidental purposes be treated as having been committed, in any place in the United Kingdom.