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HOUSE TO HOUSE CHARITABLE COLLECTIONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1952 - SECT 7

Penalties.

7.(1) Any promoter guilty of an offence under sub-section (2) of section one
of this Act shall be liable, on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term
not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, or to
both such imprisonment and such fine.

(2) Any collector guilty of an offence under sub-section (3) of section one of
this Act shall be liable, on summary conviction, in the case of a first
conviction, to a fine not exceeding five pounds, or in the case of a second or
subsequent conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months
or to a fine not exceeding twenty-five pounds, or to both such imprisonment
and such fine.

(3) Any person guilty of an offence under sub-section (3) of section four of
this Act shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding five
pounds.

(4) Any person guilty of an offence under section five of this Act shall be
liable, on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six
months or to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, or to both such
imprisonment and such fine.

(5) Any person guilty of an offence under section six of this Act shall be
liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding five pounds.

(6) If any person in furnishing any information for the purposes of this Act
knowingly or recklessly makes a statement false in a material particular, he
shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable, on summary conviction, to
imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding
one hundred pounds, or to both such imprisonment and such fine.

(7) Where an offence under this Act committed by a corporation is proved to
have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable
to any culpable neglect of duty on the part of, any director, manager,
secretary, or other officer of the corporation, he, as well as the
corporation, shall be deemed to be guilty of that offence and shall be liable
to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

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