MARKETING OF EGGS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1957 - SECT 20 Offences and prosecutions.

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MARKETING OF EGGS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1957 - SECT 20

Offences and prosecutions.

20.(1) Any person who acts in contravention of or neglects or fails to comply
with any provision of this Act or of any rules made thereunder shall be guilty
of an offence against this Act and shall, for each offence for which no
special penalty is provided, be liable on summary conviction to a fine not
exceeding twenty pounds, or on conviction on indictment to a fine not
exceeding two hundred pounds, and in either case (if a purchase or sale took
place) to an additional fine not exceeding half the price at which the eggs
were purchased or sold:

Provided that the fines imposed on summary conviction for any offence to which
this sub-section applies shall not exceed in the aggregate one hundred pounds.

(2) Any person who

(a)... in connection with any record, return or other information which he is
under this Act required to keep or furnish, makes any statement or furnishes
any information which to his knowledge is false or misleading in any material
respect; or

(b)forges or fraudulently alters or uses, or permits to be fraudulently
altered or used, any ... document issued under this Act;

(3) Any person who obstructs or impedes a duly authorised officer in the
exercise of any power conferred on such officer by or under this Act shall be
guilty of an offence against this Act and be liable on summary conviction to a
fine not exceeding twenty pounds.

(4) A prosecution for an offence against this Act (other than an offence
committed by an officer of the Ministry) shall not be instituted before a
court of summary jurisdiction except by, or with the consent of, the Ministry.

(5) Where an offence against this Act is also an offence against any enactment
relating to the sale of food or to the public health and enforceable by a
[district council], then and in such case sub-section (4) shall be deemed not
so to operate as to require the consent of the Ministry to any prosecution the
[district council] may see fit to institute:

Provided that no person shall by virtue of this sub-section be liable to be
punished more than once for the same offence.

Power of Ministry to make rules and to enable district councils to carry Act
into execution.

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MARKETING OF EGGS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1957 - SECT 20