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Regulation 8 Offences and penalty

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(1)

Any person who

(a)

fails to comply with any requirement properly made to him by an authorised officer of the Minister or of a food authority under these Regulations, or

(b)

contravenes or fails to comply with any Community provision,

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)

Where an offence under these Regulations is committed in Scotland 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.