HOUSING ON FARMS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1972 - SECT 14 Offences and penalties.

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HOUSING ON FARMS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1972 - SECT 14

Offences and penalties.

14.(1) Every person guilty of any breach or contravention of any condition
imposed by virtue of section 3 or by virtue of section 6 shall, without
prejudice to any other liability, be guilty of an offence and shall be liable
on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding

(a)in the case of a first offence, #100;

(b)in the case of a second or subsequent offence, #500.

Subs.(2) rep. by 1976 NI 25 art.80(4) sch.6 Pt.II

(3) In the event of any breach or contravention of any condition imposed under
this Act, there shall become due and repayable to the Ministry, and
recoverable upon demand made in writing by the Ministry as a civil debt due to
it, such sum as bears to the amount of the grant paid by the Ministry in
respect of the premises to which the breach or contravention relates the same
proportion as that portion of the period for which the condition was imposed
which, at the time of the breach or contravention, remains unexpired bears to
the whole of the period.

(4) Where a person has been convicted of an offence under subsection (1), the
court before which he is convicted may, on such conviction, order that, in
addition to the amount repayable by him under subsection (3), he shall repay
to the Ministry the balance of the grant paid in respect of the premises to
which the breach or contravention relates or such lesser sum as the court may
consider necessary to remedy the breach or contravention, and that order may,
without prejudice to any other remedy, be enforced in like manner as a sum
adjudged to be paid by a conviction of that court.

(5) If, for the purpose of obtaining a grant under this Act, either for
himself or for any other person, any person knowingly or recklessly makes any
false or fraudulent statement or representation

(a)the person making such statement or representation; and

(b)any person who received any payment under this Act knowing that such
statement or representation had been made;

(i)on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months
or to a fine not exceeding #100, or to both;

(ii)on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two
years or to a fine not exceeding #500, or to both.

(6) Where any offence punishable under this section has been committed by a
body corporate, then, 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.

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HOUSING ON FARMS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1972 - SECT 14