Agricultural Produce (Cereals) (Amendment) Act, 1958

Offences.

18.—(1) A person who contravenes (whether by act or omission) a provision of section 16 or section 17 or a provision of an order made under section 7 of 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.

(2) An offence under this section may be prosecuted by the Board as prosecutor.

(3) Where a licensed miller is convicted of an offence under this section, he shall, for the purposes of section 34 of the Act 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 , shall apply and have effect accordingly.