Additional offences and penalties

(1) Any failure to cooperate with the Authority and any obstruction by any person employed in a slaughterhouse or as a processing plant supervisor or, in the case of a private enterprise, by the slaughterhouse or processing plant owner or owners, or by the owner of the animals or animal products or person having charge of them, during inspection and sampling as required for the monitoring of residues, and during the investigations and checks provided for in these Regulations shall result in appropriate criminal and/or administrative penalties being imposed by the Authority. (2) Any person who contravenes these Regulations commits an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding three thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both such fine and term of imprisonment.