Regulation 15 Penalties and enforcement
(1)
If any person contravenes, or fails to comply with, any provision of these Regulations, or knowingly or recklessly makes a false statement or declaration in any document required by these Regulations for the movement of any specified bovine offal, he shall be guility of an offence and shall be liable–
(a)
on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scalef1; and
(b)
on conviction on indictement, to a fine or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or both.
(2)
Each local authority shall enforce and execute the provisions of these Regulations in its district.
Annotations
Footnotes
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Section 118(1)(f) of the Food Act 1984, as read with section 52(4) of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33).