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Paragraph 24

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

In section 77 of that Act (obtaining supplies to meet drought)—

(a)

for paragraphs (i) and (ii) of subsection (8) substitute the words “to the penalties mentioned in subsection (9).";

(b)

after subsection (8) insert the following subsection—

“(9)

The penalties referred to in subsection (8) are—

(a)

in the case of an offence under paragraph (a) of that subsection—

(i)

on summary conviction, a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum; and

(ii)

on conviction on indictment, a fine; and

(b)

in the case of an offence under paragraph (b) of that subsection, a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.”.