Paragraph 7 Penalties for offences committed before 1st April 2014

(1)

Notwithstanding any provision made by Part 3 of the 2013 Act or paragraphs 17 and 18, where—

(a)

any superseded provision,

(b)

a relevant provision of the 1978 Order, or

(c)

any provision of legislation modified by Schedule 3 or 4 to this Order,

prescribed a penalty for an offence of any kind, that penalty continues to apply to offences of that kind committed before 1st April 2014.

(2)

In this paragraph “relevant provision of the 1978 Order” means, to the extent it corresponds (with or without modification) to any provision of Part 3 of the 2013 Act, a provision of the 1978 Order applied for the purposes of the 2003 Regulations.