{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/antarctic-treaty-act-1967/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/antarctic-treaty-act-1967/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1967/65",
  "legislation_title": "Antarctic Treaty Act 1967",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/antarctic-treaty-act-1967",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Penalties.",
  "text": "(1) Any person who, being the owner or master or a member of the crew of a British ship registered in the United Kingdom, wilfully kills or takes a seal in contravention of section 1 of this Act shall be liable—\n(a) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to a fine, or to both;\n(b) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to a fine not exceeding £100, or to both.\n(2) Without prejudice to the preceding subsection, any person who, in contravention of section 1 of this Act, wilfully kills any mammal or bird of a specially protected species shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(3) Except as otherwise provided by the preceding provisions of this section, any person who commits an offence under section 1 of this Act shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(4) Any person who—\n(a) fails to comply with a requirement imposed on him by a permit in accordance with section 3(4) of this Act, or\n(b) in any report made by him in pursuance of such a requirement knowingly or recklessly makes a statement which is false in a material particular,\nshall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), ss. 38, 46 and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), ss. 289F, 289G and (N.I) S.I. 1984/703 (N.I. 3), arts. 5, 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), ss. 38, 46 and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), ss. 289F, 289G and (N.I) S.I. 1984/703 (N.I. 3), arts. 5, 6"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1967/65/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:55:07.846950+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}