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Section 6 Penalties.

(1)

A person guilty of an offence under section 1 or section 2 shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine not exceedingF1 level 4 on the standard scale or to both. . . .

(2)

A person guilty of an offence under section 5 shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

1984 NI 3

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1

Act repealed (prosp.) by Welfare of Animals Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 16), ss. 57(2), 59, Sch. 5 (with ss. 1(2), 52(1), 53, 54) and the repeal being partly in operation, as to which see individual sections