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Offences in relation to consignment notes.
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7.—(1) A person shall be guilty of an offence if—
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(a) in giving any information required to be given in a consignment note for the purposes of CMR he makes a statement which he knows to be false in a material particular or recklessly makes a statement which is false in a material particular, or
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(b) with intent to deceive he forges a document purporting to be such a consignment note or alters or uses any such consignment note or possesses any document closely resembling any such consignment note,
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and shall be liable—
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(i) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding £1,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or both, or
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(ii) on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding £50,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years or both.
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(2) (a) Where an offence under subsection (1) has been committed by a body corporate and is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of a person, being a director, manager, secretary or other officer of the body corporate, or a person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, that person shall also be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished as if he were guilty of the first-mentioned offence.
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(b) Where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, paragraph (a) shall apply in relation to the acts and defaults of a member in connection with his functions of management as if he were a director or manager of the body corporate.
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(3) A summary offence under subsection (1) may be brought and prosecuted by the Minister.
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