Fuels (Control of Supplies) Act, 1971
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Penalty for continued non-compliance with certain provisions. |
5.—(1) Where— | |
(a) a person fails or refuses or wilfully neglects to comply with a provision in an order made by the Minister under this Act or in a direction requiring the person to perform a specified act within a specified period or before a specified date, and | ||
(b) the specified act remains, after the expiry of a specified period or after the specified date, unperformed by the person, | ||
the person shall be guilty of an offence on each day on which the specified act remains unperformed and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £20 for each such offence or, at the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve months or to both such fine and such imprisonment. | ||
(2) An offence under this section shall be a continuing offence and accordingly fresh proceedings in respect thereof may be taken from time to time. | ||
(3) Subsections (4) and (7) of section 4 of this Act shall apply in relation to an offence under this section in like manner as they apply to an offence under the said section 4. |