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PART 3OFFICIAL CONTROLS ON FEED AND FOOD OF NON-ANIMAL ORIGIN FROM THIRD COUNTRIES

Offences and penalties

39.—(1) Any person who —

(a)contravenes or fails to comply with paragraph (5) of regulation 26 or paragraph (4) or (5) of regulation 33;

(b)contravenes any of the prohibitions in paragraph (1) of regulation 27;

(c)to the extent that contravention or failure to comply with regulation 28 does not constitute an offence under regulation 38, contravenes or fails to comply with regulation 28; or

(d)fails to comply with a notice served upon him or her under the Import Provisions,

is guilty of an offence.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), a person guilty of an offence under this Part of these Regulations is liable —

(a)on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum; or

(b)on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, to a fine or to both.

(3) A person guilty of an offence under regulation 38 is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both.