# Industrial Assurance Act 1923 (repealed ), Section 39: Offences.

Extent: E+W+S

(1) Any collecting society which contravenes or fails to comply with any of the provisions of this Act, or any directions by the Commission given thereunder, shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and the provisions of the Friendly Societies Act 1896 with respect to offences thereunder and to proceedings in respect of such offences shall apply to offences by societies under this Act:
Provided that the maximum penalty that may be inflicted for an offence under the Act shall be a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale
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(3) If any collector of a collecting society or industrial assurance company, or any other person, contravenes or fails to comply with any of the provisions of this Act affecting such collector or other person, he shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale .
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Any such body of persons as aforesaid shall also, without prejudice to any other penalty, be liable to pay to the owner of any policy of industrial assurance issued by them such sum as an industrial assurance company which has knowingly issued an illegal policy is under this Act liable to pay to the owner of such illegal policy.
(5) Notwithstanding any limitation on the time for the taking of proceedings contained in any Act, summary proceedings for offences under this Act, or for offences under the Friendly Societies Act 1974, where the society by or in respect of which, or the person by or in respect of whom, the offence is alleged to have been committed is a collecting society or an officer of such a society, may be commenced at any time within one year of the first discovery thereof by the relevant authority, but not in any case after more than three years from the commission of the offence.
(6) The court by which a fine is imposed in pursuance of this Act may direct that the whole or any part thereof shall be applied in or towards the payment of the costs of the proceedings and subject to any such direction and, subject in England to section 68 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1952, all such fines shall, notwithstanding anything in any other Act, be paid into the Exchequer.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/13-14/8/section/39 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/industrial-assurance-act-1923-repealed/section-39
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