Air-Raid Precautions Act, 1939

Penalties for failure to comply with notice.

53.—If any person on whom a notice is served under any of the preceding provisions of this Part of this Act fails to comply with the requirements thereof, such person shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, and, if the failure in respect of which such person was so convicted continues after the conviction, such person shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds for each day on which the offence continues.

The court by which any persons are convicted under this sub-section may fix a reasonable period from the date of the conviction for the compliance by them with the requirements of the notice, and, where the court has fixed such a period, the said daily penalty shall not be recoverable in respect of any day before the expiration thereof.