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Enforcement. 4.(1) Any person guilty of an offence against this Act shall, on summary conviction, be liable (a)in the case of a first offence to a fine not exceeding twenty-five pounds or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both such imprisonment and fine; and (b)in the case of a second or any subsequent offence to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both such imprisonment and fine: Provided that where any offence under this Act has been committed by a body corporate, then notwithstanding and without prejudice to the liability of that body, every person who at the time of such commission was a director or other officer of the body corporate or was purporting to act in any such capacity, shall be liable to be prosecuted as if he had personally committed that offence and shall, if on such prosecution it is shown that he consented to, or connived at, or did not exercise all such diligence as he ought in the circumstances to have exercised to prevent, the offence, be liable to the like conviction and punishment as if he had personally been guilty of that offence. (2) If a resident magistrate or a justice of the peace is satisfied by information on oath that there is reasonable ground for suspecting that an offence against this Act has been, is being, or is about to be committed in any premises, he may grant a search warrant authorising any police officer or constable named therein to enter such premises at any time, if necessary by force, and to search the premises and to examine and seize any article, animal or thing found therein which he has reasonable ground for believing to be evidence of the commission of an offence. (3) Without prejudice to the operation of section twenty-two of the Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851, and section eight of the Accessories and Abettors Act, 1861, any person who attempts to commit, conspires with any other person to commit or does any act preparatory to the commission of, any offence against this Act shall be guilty of that offence and punishable accordingly. (4) On the conviction of any person for an offence under section one of this Act the court may in addition to any other penalty which it has power to impose for such offence, order him within fourteen days or such extended period as the court thinks just to remove from the premises in respect of which the offence occurred all dog racing equipment erected or placed thereon and if such person neglects or fails to comply with the terms of such order, he may, in the discretion of the court, be ordered to pay a sum not exceeding twenty-five pounds for every day during which he is in default and for the purpose of enforcing payment of any such sum the court may exercise all the powers (including powers of imprisonment) exercisable by a court of summary jurisdiction in cases where default is made in payment of a penal sum.
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