Offences and penalties
5.—(1) Any person who contravenes regulation 4, or causes or permits another person to contravene that regulation, shall be guilty of an offence.
(2) Any person guilty of an offence under paragraph (1) shall be liable:
(a)on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum; or
(b)on conviction on indictment, to a fine.
(3) For the purposes of this regulation, section 20(2) of the Interpretation Act (NI) 1954 applies with the omission of the words “the liability of whose members is limited” and where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, applies in relation to the acts or defaults of a member in connection with his functions of management as if he were a director of the body corporate.