Section 8 Penalty for offences against Act and provision as to offences by companies.
Scotland
If any person is guilty of an offence against this Act (other than an offence in respect of which some other penalty is specifically provided by this Act), he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding F1level 1 on the standard scale and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding two pounds in respect of each day on which the offence continues after conviction.
Where a person convicted of an offence against this Act is a company, the chairman and every director of the company and every officer of the company concerned in the management thereof shall be guilty of the like offence, unless he proves that the act or omission constituting the offence took place without his knowledge or consent.
Annotations
Textual amendments
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Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21), ss. 289F, 289G and by 1995 c. 40, ss. 3, 7(2), Sch. 1 para. 3(1), Sch. 2 Pt. II it is provided (1.4.1996) that s. 8 shall have effect as if the maximum fine that may be imposed on summary conviction for an offence mentioned therein were a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale instead of a fine not exceeding £20
Notes on the whole Act
Textual amendments
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Act repealed (1.4.2002) by 2001 asp 8, s. 80(1), Sch. 4; S.S.I. 2002/162, art. 2 (with arts. 3-13)