Arterial Drainage (Amendment) Act, 1995

Increase of penalties under Principal Act.

14.—(1) A person convicted of an offence for which a penalty is provided in a section of the Principal Act specified in column (1) of the Table to this section shall, in lieu of the monetary penalty so provided (not being a monetary penalty of the kind referred to in subsection (2)), be liable to the penalty specified in column (2) of that Table, and the sections specified in column (1) of that Table shall be construed and have effect accordingly.

(2) So much of each section of the Principal Act specified in column (1) of the Table to this section that enables a fine to be imposed, being a fine which is referred to in the section as a further fine or which is expressed in the section to be the fine to which a person shall be liable for every day during which an offence under the section is continued, shall cease to have effect and, in lieu thereof, it is hereby provided that if the contravention in respect of which a person is convicted of an offence under an aforesaid section is continued after the conviction, that person shall be guilty of a further offence on every day on which the contravention continues and for each such offence he or she shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £200.

TABLE

Section of Principal Act

Penalty

(1)

(2)

46 (2), 47 (4), 48 (5), 49 (9), 50 (4), 52 (2) and 53 (8)

A fine not exceeding £1,500