Enforcement
5.—(1) If any person contravenes regulation 3 above he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.
(2) Each food authority shall enforce and execute these Regulations in its area.
(3) In this regulation “food authority” does not include—
(a)the council of any district in a non-metropolitan county in England, except where the county functions have been transferred to that council in relation to a structural change; or
(b)the appropriate Treasurer referred to in section 5(1)(c) of the Act (which deals with the Inner and Middle Temple).
(4) Where an offence under these Regulations is committed 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.