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Penalties.
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25.—(1) A person guilty of an offence under this Act shall be liable—
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(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding £1,500 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or both,
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(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding £100,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years or both.
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(2) The Court may, upon conviction, order any thing that in the opinion of the court was used for the purpose of the commission of an offence under this Act to be forfeited to the Minister and either destroyed or disposed of in such manner as the Minister may determine.
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(3) A person who obstructs or interferes with an authorised officer or a member of the Garda Síochána in the exercise of the officer's or member's powers under this Act, or gives an authorised officer or member of the Garda Síochána information that is false or misleading, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £1,500 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or both.
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(4) Where an offence under this Act is committed by a body corporate and it is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance or approval of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, any person who, when the offence was committed, was a director, manager, secretary or other officer of the body corporate, or any person who was acting or purporting to act in any such capacity, that person shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished as if guilty of the first-mentioned offence.
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(5) Where the affairs at a body corporate are managed by its members, subsection (4) applies as if the reference to a director in that subsection were a reference to a member of the body corporate.
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