Clean Air Act 1956

27 Penalties

(1) A person guilty of an offence under section one of this Act shall be liable on summary conviction, in the case of dark smoke from a chimney of a private dwelling, to a fine not exceeding ten pounds, and, in the case of dark smoke from any other chimney, to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.

(2) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (3) of section three or section eleven of this Act shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.

(3) A person guilty of an offence under section twenty-six of this Act shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both.

(4) A person guilty of an offence under any of the other provisions of this Act shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds:

Provided that where a person is convicted of such an offence (not being an offence under section eight of this Act) and it is shown to the satisfaction of the court that the offence was substantially a repetition or continuation of an earlier offence by him after he had been convicted of the earlier offence, he shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or not exceeding twenty pounds for every day on of which the earlier offence has been so repeated or continued by him within the three months next following his conviction therefor, whichever is the greater.

(5) Any offence under any provision of this Act for which the maximum penalty which may be imposed does not exceed ten pounds may in Scotland be prosecuted in any court of summary jurisdiction within the meaning of the Summary Jurisdiction (Scotland) Act, 1954, having jurisdiction in the place where the offence was committed.