The Welsh Levy Board Order 2008

Penalties and proceedings

16.—(1) A person guilty of an offence under this Order is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.

(2) Proceedings for an offence under this Order may be brought within the period of 6 months beginning with the date on which evidence sufficient in the opinion of the prosecutor to warrant the proceedings came to his or her knowledge, provided that the commencement of such proceedings is not more than 2 years after the date on which the offence was committed.

(3) Where a body corporate is guilty of an offence under this Order, and that offence is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to have been attributable to any neglect on the part of—

(a) any director, manager, secretary or other similar person of the body corporate; or

(b) any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity,

that person is guilty of the offence as well as the body corporate.

(4) For the purposes of this article “director” (“cyfarwyddwr”) in relation to a body corporate whose affairs are managed by its members, means a member of the body corporate.

(5) Where an offence under this Order that has been committed by a Scottish partnership is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, a partner, he or she as well as the partnership is guilty of the offence.