Regulation 19 Offences and penaltiesF1
United Kingdom
A person contravening or failing to comply with any provision of regulation 11 or 18 shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable—
on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both;
on conviction on indictment, to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both.
Where a body corporate is guilty of an offence under these Regulations, and that offence is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to have been attributable to any neglect on the part of—
any director, manager, secretary or other similar person of the body corporate, or
any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he, as well as the body corporate, shall be guilty of the offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
For the purposes of paragraph (1) above, “director”, in relation to a body corporate whose affairs are managed by its members, means a member of the body corporate.
Where an offence under these Regulations which has been committed by a Scottish partnership is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, a partner, he as well as the partnership shall be guilty of the offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
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Regulations revoked (N.I.) (31.12.2020) by The Seeds (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1294), regs. 1(2)(b), 5 (with savings and transitional provisions in S.R. 2020/302, reg. 25)