# The Policing and Crime Act (Financial Sanctions) (Overseas Territories) Order 2017, Article 13: Temporary Regulations: penalties


(1) In any of the territories other than those listed in paragraph (2), any provision in Temporary Regulations as to the maximum penalty on summary conviction is to be read as if a person guilty of an offence under any Temporary Regulations is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months, or a fine not exceeding £5,000 or its equivalent, or both.
(2) Any provision in Temporary Regulations as to the penalty for conviction in relation to an offence under those Regulations applies as follows to the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia in the Island of Cyprus, the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and St Helena, Ascension and Tristan de Cunha—
(a) in relation to any offence for which a penalty on conviction on indictment is specified in the Temporary Regulations, the maximum penalty is imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years, or a fine, or both;
(b) in relation to any offence for which only a penalty on summary conviction is specified in the Temporary Regulations, the maximum penalty is imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months, or a fine not exceeding £5,000 or its equivalent, or both.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/984/article/13 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-financial-sanctions-overseas-territories-order-2017/article-13
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