Containment of Nuclear Weapons Act 2003

Offences and penalties.

14.—(1) A person who contravenes section 7 (9), 9 , 10 , 11 (3) or 12 or a regulation made under section 13 is guilty of an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding €3,000, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months, or both.

(2) Where an offence under this Act is committed by a body corporate or by a person acting on behalf of a body corporate and is proved to have been so committed with the consent, connivance or approval of, or to have been attributable to any neglect on the part of, any person who, when the offence was committed, was a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate or a person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, that person (as well as the body corporate) is guilty of an offence and is liable to be proceeded against and punished as if guilty of the offence committed by the body corporate.