Shipping Investment Grants Act, 1969

Offences.

8.—(1) Any person who, in purported compliance with a notice under section 6, knowingly or recklessly makes any statement or produces any document which is false in a material particular shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to both such fine and such imprisonment, or, on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding one thousand pounds or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to both such fine and such imprisonment.

(2) Any person who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with a notice under section 6 shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds or, on a second or subsequent conviction, one hundred pounds.

(3) Any person who wilfully obstructs a person in the exercise of a right of entry and inspection under section 7 or who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with a requirement under that section shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.

(4) Any person who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with any condition subject to which a grant under this Act was made to him, being a condition requiring him to inform the Minister of any event whereby the grant becomes repayable in whole or in part, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or, on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding one thousand pounds or three times the amount so repayable, whichever is the greater.