Article 6 Penalties and Proceedings
Any person guilty of an offence under article 3(2) of this Order shall be liable:
on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years, or to a fine, or to both; or
on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to a fine not exceeding £5,000 or its equivalent, or to both.
Any person guilty of an offence under paragraph 5(b) or (d) of Schedule 3 to this Order shall be liable:
on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to a fine, or to both; or
on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to a fine not exceeding £5,000 or its equivalent, or to both.
Any person guilty of an offence under article 4(1) or (2) of this Order shall be liable:
on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to a fine, or to both; or
on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding £5,000 or its equivalent.
Any person guilty of an offence under paragraph 5(a) or (c) of Schedule 3 to this Order shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to a fine not exceeding £5,000 or its equivalent, or to both.
Where any body corporate is guilty of an offence under this Order, and that offence is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he, as well as the body corporate, shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
No proceedings for an offence under this Order shall be instituted in the Territory except by or with the consent of the principal public officer of the Territory having responsibility for criminal prosecutions:
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Provided that this paragraph shall not prevent the arrest, or the issue or execution of a warrant for the arrest, of any person in respect of such an offence, or the remand in custody or on bail of any person charged with such an offence, notwithstanding that the necessary consent to the institution of proceedings for the offence has not been obtained.