{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poisons-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poisons-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-10.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1976/1214",
  "legislation_title": "Poisons (Northern Ireland) Order 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poisons-northern-ireland-order-1976",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Penalties for certain offences",
  "text": "(1) Any person contravening any of the provisions of this Order (other than Article 7(8) or 11, Part IV or Article 16), or any regulations under Article 9, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale and where this paragraph is again contravened within one year after the conviction to a further fine not exceeding £10 for every day, subsequent to the day on which he is first convicted of an offence under this paragraph, on which it is so contravened.\n(2) In the case of proceedings against a person under paragraph (1) for or in connection with the sale, exposure for sale or supply of a non-medicinal poison effected by an employee—\n(a) it shall not be a defence that the employee acted without the authority of the employer; and\n(b) any material fact known to the employee shall be deemed to have been known to the employer.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1984 NI 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1976/1214/article/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:53:41.622100+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}