Finance Act 2017

Offence and penalty (Chapter 1)

44. (1) It is an offence under this subsection for any person to contravene or fail to comply with any provision of this Chapter, or any regulation made under section 45 , or any condition imposed under this Chapter, or under such regulation in relation to such provision.

(2) Without prejudice to any other penalty to which a person may be liable, a person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) shall be liable on summary conviction, to a class A fine.

(3) Where an offence under subsection (1) is committed by a body corporate and the offence is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of any person who, when the offence was committed, was a director, manager, secretary or other officer of the body corporate, or who purported 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.

(4) Where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, subsection (3) shall apply in relation to the acts and defaults of a member in connection with his or her functions of management as if he or she were a director or manager.