Article 4

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

art. 4-6 applied by Hovercraft (Application of Enactments) 1989
art. 4 words substituted by Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Fines on Summary Conviction) 2015 Sch. 4 para. 47
art. 4-6 amendment to earlier affecting provision S.I. 1989/1350, art. 3 by Hovercraft (Application of Enactments) 2025 art. 2(3)(f)

Section 2(4) of the Act of 1971 (which provides that a person guilty of an offence under that section shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £50,000 or on conviction on indictment to a fine) shall apply in respect of any contravention of the Regulations made under this Order as may be prescribed by those Regulations as it applies to an offence under section 2 of that Act.