CHECKWEIGHING IN VARIOUS INDUSTRIES ACT 1919

	[Home] [Databases] [World Law] [Search] [Feedback]
	Northern Irish Legislation
You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> Northern Irish Legislation >> CHECKWEIGHING IN VARIOUS INDUSTRIES ACT 1919

[Index] [Table] [Search] [Notes] [Noteup] [Previous] [Next] [Download] [Help]

CHECKWEIGHING IN VARIOUS INDUSTRIES ACT 1919 - SECT 3

Offences.

3.(1) If any employer fails to comply with any of the requirements of this Act
or the regulations made thereunder, he shall be guilty of an offence against
this Act.

(2) Any person guilty of an offence against this Act for which no other
penalty is provided shall on summary conviction be liable to a fine not
exceeding five pounds, and to a fine not exceeding [#2] for each day on which
the offence is continued after conviction thereof.

(3) If an employer is charged with an offence against this Act, he shall be
entitled, on information duly laid by him, to have any other person whom he
charges as the actual offender brought before the court at the time appointed
for the hearing of the charge and if, after the commission of the offence has
been proved the employer proves to the satisfaction of the court that he has
used due diligence to comply with the provisions of this Act, and of the
regulations made thereunder, and that that other person has committed the
offence in question without his knowledge, consent, or connivance, that other
person shall be summarily convicted of the offence, and the employer shall be
exempt from any fine, and the person so convicted shall in the discretion of
the court be also liable to pay any costs incidental to the proceedings.

(4) If any person required to give any certificate or furnish any information
or keep any books under this Act or the regulations made thereunder knowingly
makes any false statement in any such certificate or furnishes any false
information or falsifies any such book, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanour
and liable to imprisonment ... for a term not exceeding two years, or to a
fine, or to both such imprisonment and fine.

(5) If any checkweigher or representative of workmen appointed under this Act,
or the regulations made thereunder, divulges any trade secret or other
information with regard to the employer's business, he shall be liable on
summary conviction to imprisonment, ..., for a term not exceeding six months
or to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds, unless he proves that the trade
secret did not come to his knowledge or the information was not acquired by
him in the course of the exercise of his powers under this Act.

[Index] [Table] [Search] [Notes] [Noteup] [Previous] [Next] [Download] [Help]

BAILII: Copyright Policy | Disclaimers | Privacy Policy | Feedback
URL: http://www.bailii.org/nie/legis/num_act/civia1919367/s3.html

Northern Irish Legislation

CHECKWEIGHING IN VARIOUS INDUSTRIES ACT 1919 - SECT 3