Control of Exports Act 2008
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Offences. |
8.— (1) A person who— | |
(b) contravenes the terms of a licence, | ||
(c) contravenes a regulation under section 6 (6), or | ||
(d) contravenes section 6 (8), | ||
commits an offence and is liable— | ||
(i) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding €5,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months, or to both, or | ||
(ii) on conviction on indictment— | ||
(I) to a fine not exceeding the greater of €10,000,000 or, where relevant, 3 times the value of the goods or technology concerned in respect of which the offence was committed, or | ||
(II) to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years, | ||
or to both such fine and such imprisonment. | ||
(2) A person who commits an offence under section 7 (13) is liable— | ||
(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding €5,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months, or to both, or | ||
(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding €50,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years, or to both. | ||
(3) Where an offence under this Act is committed by a body corporate and is proved to have been so committed with the consent, connivance or approval of or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of a person being a director, manager, secretary or other officer of the body corporate, or any other person who was acting or purporting to act in any such capacity, that person as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of an offence and be liable to be proceeded against and punished as if he or she were guilty of the first-mentioned offence. |