3.—(1) A person who uses, or causes or permits to be used, a vehicle on a road for the purposes of UK cabotage operations, which –
(a)take the form of occasional services in Northern Ireland or between Northern Ireland and Great Britain; and
(b)are carried out in contravention of Article 6(1) of the Council Regulation,
shall be guilty of an offence.
(2) A person who is guilty of an offence under paragraph (1) shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.