Offences
18 Falsifications by the registrar.
If the registrar wilfully makes or causes to be made any falsification in any matter relating to the register or the Annual Register of Pharmaceutical Chemists or any such certificate as is mentioned in subsection (5) of section three of this Act, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanour and, in the case of a falsification relating to the said Annual Register, liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve months.
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20 Offences relating to certificates.
1
If any person fraudulently exhibits any certificate purporting to be a certificate of membership of the Society, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanour.
2
If, with intent to deceive, any person—
a
F3forges, or uses, or lends to or allows to be used by any other person any certificate issued under the Pharmacy Acts; or
b
makes or has in his possession any document so closely resembling such a certificate as to be calculated to deceive,
he shall be liable on summary conviction, in respect of each offence, to a fine not exceeding F4level 3 on the standard scale and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding five pounds for every day subsequent to the day on which he is convicted of the offence during which the contravention continues.
F5In the application of this subsection to England or Wales, the expression “forges” has the same meaning as in the M1Forgery Act 1913.
3
If any person to whom a certificate of registration has been issued in pursuance of section five of this Act ceases to be a registered pharmaceutical chemist he shall, before the expiration of fourteen days from so ceasing, transmit the certificate to the registrar for cancellation, and, if he fails to do so, he shall be liable on summary conviction, in respect of each offence, to a fine not exceeding F6level 1 on the standard scale and to a further fine not exceeding one pound for every day subsequent to the day on which he is convicted of the offence during which the default continues. C1
21 Extension of time for certain prosecutions.
Notwithstanding anything in F7the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 or F8the M2Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 proceedings for an offence under F9. . .subsection (2) or subsection (3) of the last foregoing section may be commenced at any time within the period of twelve months next after the date of the commission of the offence.