Offences, penalties and enforcement
9.—(1) If any person contravenes or fails to comply with any of the provisions of these Regulations he shall be guilty of an offence, and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.
(2) Where an offence under these Regulations is committed in Scotland by a Scottish partnership and is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, a partner, he as well as the partnership shall be guilty of the offence and be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
(3) Subject to paragraph (4) below, each food authority shall enforce and execute these Regulations in its area.
(4) In this regulation “food authority” does not include—
(a)the council of a district in a non-metropolitan county in England except where the county functions have been transferred to that council pursuant to a structural change;
(b)until 1st April 1996, the council of a district in Wales; or
(c)the appropriate Treasurer referred to in section 5(1)(c) of the Act (which deals with the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple).