Western Development Commission Act, 1998

Penalties.

4.—(1) A person guilty of an offence under section 18 shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £1,500 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or both.

(2) A person guilty of an offence under section 16 or 17 shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £1,500.

(3) Where an offence under this Act is committed by a body corporate and is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of any director, manager, secretary or other officer of such body corporate or a person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, that officer or person 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.