Section 201 Penalties for offences.

Northern Ireland

(1 F1)

A person who commits an offence under any provision of this Act for which a penalty is not provided by any provision of this Act other than this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding [F2 £500].

(2)

F3. . . the Ministry may prescribe lower penalties for breach of a particular regulation, than the penalty provided under subsection (1), and that subsection shall, in any such case, be construed as if such lower penalties were substituted for that so provided.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Mod., 1967 c.7 (NI)
F2: 1981 NI 7
F3: Words in s. 201(2) repealed (1.6.2009) by Public Authorities (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 3), ss. 1(3)(b), 6, 7(1), Sch. 1 Pt. 2 para. 3(42), Sch. 3 (with Sch. 1 Pt. 1 para. 4(3)); S.R. 2009/172, art. 2(b)(e)

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1: App. (hovercraft), SI 1972/971