POULTRY IMPROVEMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968

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POULTRY IMPROVEMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 10



10.(1) Subject to the provisions of section 11, a person shall be guilty of an
offence if he or any person acting on his behalf

(a)wilfully obstructs or impedes an authorised officer in the exercise of any
powers conferred on the officer by virtue of this Act or without reasonable
cause fails to give to any authorised officer acting under this Act any
assistance or information which the authorised officer may reasonably require
of him for the purposes of the performance by the authorised officer of his
functions under this Act; or

(b)alters or fraudulently uses any licence, permit or other document issued or
granted under this Act; or

(c)in connection with the application for or the issue of a licence or the
grant of a permit, or in any record kept or return made, under this Act
knowingly or recklessly makes any statement or entry or furnishes or with
intent to deceive makes use of any information which is false in a material
particular or in any material respect misleading; or

(d)contravenes any provision of this Act or of any scheme or regulation made
thereunder, or fails to comply with either any requirement duly made of him by
the Ministry in pursuance of any such provision or any condition of a licence
issued or permit granted under this Act.

(2) A person who is guilty of an offence under subsection (1)(a) shall be
liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.

(3) A person who is guilty of an offence under any provision of subsection
(1), other than paragraph (a) thereof, or under the provision contained in
paragraph 11(4) of the Schedule shall be liable on summary conviction

(a)in the case of a first offence under that provision to a fine not exceeding
fifty pounds;

(b)in the case of a second or subsequent offence under that provision to a
fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.

(4) The Ministry may in any scheme made under this Act or in any regulations
provide for the imposition in respect of any contravention of any provision of
the scheme or, as the case may be, of the regulations, or any failure to
comply with any requirement made thereunder, of a lower maximum penalty than
the penalty specified in paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection (3), and where
the Ministry so provides that paragraph shall have effect in relation to any
such contravention or failure as if the reference therein to that penalty were
a reference to that lower penalty.

(5) Where a person is convicted of an offence under subsection (1)(d) and the
contravention or failure in respect of which he was convicted is continued
after conviction, he shall be guilty of a further offence and shall be liable
on summary conviction, in addition to any other penalty, to a fine not
exceeding five pounds for each day on which the contravention or failure is so
continued.

(6) An offence under subsection (5) shall be a continuing offence and
accordingly fresh proceedings in respect thereof may be taken from time to
time.

(7) No proceedings for an offence under any of the provisions of this Act may
be instituted except

(a)by the Ministry, or

(b)by, or with the consent of, the Attorney General.

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POULTRY IMPROVEMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 10