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15.—(1) A person who issues a certificate purporting to comply with regulation 7(4) which contains a statement which he knows to be false or misleading in a material particular, or who recklessly issues a certificate purporting to comply with regulation 7(4) which contains a statement which is false or misleading in a material particular shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.
(2) A person who fails without reasonable excuse to comply with a notice served upon him under regulation 12(1) or 14(1) shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.
(3) Where a body corporate is guilty of an offence under paragraph (1) or (2), and that offence is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of –
(a)any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or
(b)any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity,
he, as well as the body corporate, shall be guilty of the offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
(4) For the purposes of paragraph (3), “director”, in relation to a body corporate whose affairs are managed by its members, means a member of the body corporate.
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