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(8) Whenever any person to whom any licence or permit (s. 38 contit.) or authority has been issued or granted under this Ordinance would be liable under the provisions of this Ordinance or of any regulations made thereunder to any punishment, penalty or forfeiture for any act, omission, neglect or default, he shall be liable to the same punishment, penalty or forfeiture for every similar act, omission, neglect, or default of any agent or servant employed by him in the course of his business, and every agent or servant employed by him in the course of his business shall also be liable to every punishment, penalty, or forfeiture prescribed for such acts, omissions, neglects or defaults contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance as fully and effectually as if such agent or servant had been the person to whom the licence or permit or authority had been issued or granted.

(9) Every person who prepares, makes, delivers or sup- plies any requisition, particulars, return, accounts or other written statement required by or under this Ordinance, shall, if such requisition, particulars, return, accounts or written statement are false or incorrect either in whole or in part to the knowledge of the person so preparing, making, delivering or supplying the same, whether the same be signed by him or not, be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.

39.--(1) Every person who contravenes any of the Penalties. provisions of any of the enactments specified in the first column of the following table shall upon summary conviction be liable to the penalty specified in the corresponding entries in the second and third columns of the said table:

Enactment.

Maximum fine.

Maximum term of imprisonment.

S.

$2,000

s. 14

$1,000

Six months.

s. 15 (1)

500

s. 15 (2)

25

s. 17

$5,000

One year.

s. 18

$5,000

One year.

s. 19

$5,000

s. 25

Que year.

250

s. 25 (5)

s. 26.

* JI

250

Six months.

250

250

Three months.

any regulation

made

under

this Ordinance

Provided that any person who contravenes any of the provisions of sections 17. 18 or 19 shall be liable, on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding ten years.

(2) Where a term of imprisonment is specified in the third column of the above table. such imprisonment may be with or without hard labour and may be imposed in addition to any fine or without any fine being imposed.

(3) Every person who commits an offence against this Ordinance for which no penalty is otherwise prescribed shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, or not exceeding ten times the market

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