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10.—(1) Each local authority shall enforce and execute within its area the specified Community provisions and regulation 4.
(2) Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with any of the specified Community provisions or regulation 4 shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.
(3) For the purposes of the enforcement and execution of the specified Community provisions and regulation 4, the supply in the course of a business of organic products, otherwise than on a sale, shall be deemed to be a sale of such products, and for those purposes sale shall include possession for sale, or offer or exposure for sale.
(4) For the purposes of such enforcement and execution in respect of products intended for human consumption within the meaning of Article 1(1)(b) of the Council Regulation, any such product commonly used for human consumption shall, if sold or offered, exposed or kept for sale, be presumed, until the contrary is proved, to have been sold for human consumption or, as the case may be, to have been, or to be, intended for sale for human consumption.
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