{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rag-flock-and-other-filling-materials-act-1951-repealed-611997/section-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rag-flock-and-other-filling-materials-act-1951-repealed-611997/section-18.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/14-15/63",
  "legislation_title": "Rag Flock and Other Filling Materials Act 1951 (repealed 6.1.1997)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rag-flock-and-other-filling-materials-act-1951-repealed-611997",
  "path": "section/18",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Penalties.",
  "text": "A person guilty of an offence under this Act shall, unless a special penalty for that offence is provided by this Act, be liable—\n(a) in the case of a first offence, to a fine not exceeding fifty poundslevel 3 on the standard scale;\n(b) in the case of a second or subsequent offence, to a fine not exceeding one hundred poundslevel 3 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "For “fifty pounds” and “one hundred pounds” there is substituted (S.) in each case “level 3 on the standard scale” by virtue of Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), ss. 289E–289G"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), s. 289E (in relation to liability on first and subsequent convictions), applies (S.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 18: Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), ss. 35 (in relation to liability on first and subsequent convictions), 38 (increase of fines) and 46 (substitution of references to levels on the standard scale) apply (E.W.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/14-15/63/section/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:18:00.014042+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."
}