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AID TO INDUSTRY (AMENDMENT) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964

AID TO INDUSTRY (AMENDMENT) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - LONG TITLE

An Act to extend and amend the Aid to Industry Act (Northern
Ireland) 1961, and for purposes connected therewith.
[18th February 1964]
Ss.13 amend ss.13 of 1961 c.17 (NI)

AID TO INDUSTRY (AMENDMENT) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 4
Increase in aggregate amount of contributions.

4. Subs.(1) amends s.6 of 1961 c.17 (NI)

(2) There shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament
any increase attributable to any provision of this Act in the sums
which may be so defrayed under section 6 of the principal Act.

S.5 amends s.7 of 1961 c.17 (NI)

AID TO INDUSTRY (AMENDMENT) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 6
Powers of entry and inspection.

6.(1) For the purpose of ascertaining or verifying any matter
arising in connection with the execution of the principal Act or of
any order made thereunder or of this Act, any person authorised by
the Ministry in that behalf may, at all reasonable times and on
producing, if so required, a duly authenticated document showing his
authority,

(a)enter and inspect the premises, plant and machinery of a
registered person or person seeking to be registered;

(b)require any person in those premises who is for the time being
in charge thereof or in control of the work carried on therein to
produce to the person making the inspection, and to allow him to
examine, such books of account, records and other documents and to
furnish such other information as he may reasonably require for the
aforesaid purpose;

(c)take copies of and extracts from such books, records and other
documents as are referred to in paragraph (b).

(2) Any person who

(a)wilfully obstructs any person exercising a right conferred by
subsection (1); or

(b)refuses to produce any books, records or other documents or to
furnish any other information which he is required to produce or
furnish under sub-section (1);

(3) Any information which is obtained under the powers conferred by
subsection (1) shall not, without the previous consent in writing of
the person carrying on the undertaking to which the information
relates, be disclosed except in connection with the execution of the
principal Act or of any order made thereunder or of this Act or
for the purposes of any proceedings pursuant thereto or any report
of such proceedings.

(4) Any person contravening the provisions of subsection (3) shall
be guilty of an offence and shall be liable

(a)on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding
three months or to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds, or to both
such imprisonment and such fine; or

(b)on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding two years or to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds,
or to both such imprisonment and such fine.

AID TO INDUSTRY (AMENDMENT) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 7
Time for bringing summary proceedings.

7.(1) Notwithstanding any provision in any enactment prescribing the
period within which summary proceedings may be commenced, summary
proceedings for an offence under the principal Act or this Act may
be commenced at any time within the period of six months from the
date on which evidence, sufficient in the opinion of the Ministry
to justify a prosecution for the offence, comes to the knowledge of
the Ministry, or within the period of twelve months after the
commission of the offence, whichever period last expires.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) a certificate, purporting to
be signed by the Minister or a secretary or assistant secretary of
the Ministry as to the date on which such evidence as aforesaid
came to the knowledge of the Ministry, shall be conclusive evidence
thereof.

AID TO INDUSTRY (AMENDMENT) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 8
Interpretation.

8. In this Act "the principal Act" has the meaning assigned to it
in section 1 and "Minister" and "Ministry" have the same meanings
as in the principal Act.

AID TO INDUSTRY (AMENDMENT) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 9
Short title, construction and citation.

9.(1) This Act may be cited as the Aid to Industry (Amendment) Act
(Northern Ireland) 1964.

(2) This Act shall be construed as one with the principal Act and
that Act and this Act may be cited together as the Aid to
Industry Acts (Northern Ireland) 1961 and 1964.