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Offences, prosecutions and punishments.
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6.—(1) Every person who contravenes (whether by act or omission) or attempts to contravene any provision of this Act or any order made thereunder shall be guilty of an offence.
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(2) Every person who aids, abets, assists, counsels or procures another person, or conspires with another person to commit an offence under this Act shall himself be guilty of an offence.
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(3) Where an offence is committed by a body corporate or an unincorporated body of persons and is proved to have been so committed with the consent or approval of, or to have been facilitated by any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary, member of any committee or official of such body, such person shall also be guilty of an offence.
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(4) Every person who commits an offence under this Act shall—
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(a) on summary conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds (together with, in the case of a continuing offence, a further fine not exceeding twenty pounds for every day on which the offence is continued) or, at the discretion of the court, imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or both;
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(b) on conviction on indictment, be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred pounds (together with, in the case of a continuing offence, a further fine not exceeding one hundred pounds for every day on which the offence is continued) or, at the discretion of the court, penal servitude for a term not exceeding five years or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or both such fine and such penal servitude or imprisonment.
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