Package Holidays and Travel Trade Act, 1995

Offences.

6.—(1) A person who contravenes any provision of this Act, contravention of which is deemed to be an offence, shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £1,500.

(2) A person who is guilty of an offence under section 21 , 22 (3) or 26 shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £1,500 or, on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding £50,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both.

(3) Where an offence under this Act has been committed by a body corporate and is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to have been facilitated by any neglect on the part of any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of such body or of any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, that officer or person, as well as such body, shall 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.

(4) No contract shall become enforceable or unenforceable and no right of action in civil proceedings in respect of any loss shall arise by reason only of the commission of an offence under section 22 .