{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/uniformity-of-laws-act-northern-ireland-1922/schedule-FIFTH/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/uniformity-of-laws-act-northern-ireland-1922/schedule-FIFTH/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1922/20",
  "legislation_title": "Uniformity of Laws Act (Northern Ireland) 1922",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/uniformity-of-laws-act-northern-ireland-1922",
  "path": "schedule/FIFTH/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Penalties for infringement of foregoing provisions.",
  "text": "(1) In the event of any contravention in or in connection with any premises of the foregoing provisions of this Act, the occupier shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding ten pounds for each day on which the offence is continued after conviction thereof.\n(2) In the event of the contravention by any person employed on any premises of any regulation contained in the First Schedule to this Act or of any regulation made under this Act, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale.\n(3) The provisions of section one hundred and forty-one of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901 1901 c.22 (which relates to the power of an occupier to exempt himself from fine on the conviction of the actual offender), shall apply to offences under this Act as it applies to offences under that Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1984 NI 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1938 c.23 (NI), see now 1965 c.20 (NI)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1922/20/schedule/FIFTH/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:35:21.904144+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."
}