Health Insurance Act, 1994

Offences.

4.—(1) (a) A person who contravenes a provision of this Act shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable—

(i) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding £1,000, or

(ii) on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding £100,000.

(b) A person who contravenes a provision of a regulation under this Act stated to be a penal regulation shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £1,000.

(2) A person who, after conviction for an offence under subsection (1), continues to contravene the provision concerned, shall be guilty of an offence on each day on which the contravention continues and for each such offence shall be liable—

(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding £100, or

(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding £10,000.

(3) Where an offence under this Act is committed by a body corporate and is proved to have been so committed with the consent or connivance of or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of any person, being a director, manager, secretary or other officer of the body corporate, or a person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, that person, as well as the body corporate, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished as if he or she were guilty of the first-mentioned offence.