Agricultural Produce (Cereals) (Amendment) Act, 1956

Offences.

11.—(1) A person who contravenes (whether by act or omission) a provision of this Act, the First Schedule to this Act or any order under this Act shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction, in the case of a first offence, to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds and, in the case of a second or any subsequent offence, to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or, at the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months or both such fine and such imprisonment.

(2) Any offence under this section may be prosecuted by the Minister as prosecutor.

(3) Where the holder of a milling licence is convicted of an offence under this section, such holder shall, for the purposes of section 34 of the Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1933 (No. 7 of 1933), be deemed to have been convicted of an offence under that Act, and the said section 34, as amended by section 13 of the Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1934 (No. 41 of 1934), shall apply and have effect accordingly.