Offences and penalties
13 Supply of video recording not complying with requirementsas to labels, etc.
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A person who supplies or offers to supply a video recording or any spool, case or other thing on or in which the recording is kept which does not satisfy any requirement imposed by regulations under section 8 of this Act is guilty of an offence unless
F3a
the video work is an exempted work, or
b
the supply is, or would if it took place be, an exempted supply.
2
It is a defence to a charge of committing an offence under this section to prove that the accused—
F4za
believed on reasonable grounds that the video work concerned or, if the video recording contained more than one work to which the charge relates, each of those works was an exempted work,
a
believed on reasonable grounds that the supply was, or would if it took place be, an exempted supply by virtue of section 3(4) or (5) of this Act, or
b
neither knew nor had reasonable grounds to believe that the recording, spool, case or other thing (as the case may be) did not satisfy the requirement concerned.
F13
A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.