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The Food Premises (Registration) Regulations 1991

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8.—(1) Any person who contravenes the provisions of regulation 2(1) shall be guilty of an offence triable summarily and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

(2) Any person who permits premises to be used for the purposes of a food business in contravention of regulation 2(2) shall he guilty of an offence triable summarily and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

(3) Any person who contravenes regulation 7(1) or (2) shall be guilty of an offence triable summarily and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

(4) Any person who contravenes the provisions of paragraph 5 of Schedule 3, shall be guilty of an offence triable summarily and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

(5) Any person who for any purpose connected with these Regulations furnishes information which he knows to be false shall be guilty of an offence triable summarily and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.

(6) Subject to paragraph (7), any person who, otherwise than in the performance of his duty or pursuant to regulation 5 or regulation 6(2), intentionally or recklessly discloses to another person particulars supplied to a registration authority under these Regulations shall be guilty of an offence triable summarily and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.

(7) lt shall be a defence for a person charged with an offence under paragraph (6) relating to disclosure of the supplementary record or of any entry in it to show that he did not know, and had no reasonable grounds to suspect, that the person to whom he disclosed the information was not a person to whom such disclosure might lawfully be made.

(8) Subsections (1), (5) and (6) of section 21 of the Act shall apply to an offence under any of paragraphs (1), (2), (3) or (4) of this regulation as they apply to an offence under any of the provisions of Part II of the Act which precede section 21.

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