Offence and penalty

(1) Any licence holder who contravenes the provision of paragraph (2) of Regulation 10 above, commits an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500) or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to both. (2) It shall not be an offence under this Regulation where a person holding a group of contiguous claims for which Registration Certificates have been issued, does not keep the boundaries of each claim distinctly marked, provided that the external boundaries of the whole group are kept distinctly marked and the location boards are kept as required under Regulation 10 above. (3) Any person who destroys, defaces, or removes, either wholly or in part, any tree, post, beacon, location board, or other marking of a claim, whether in the exercise of any right as regards such claim or otherwise, or procures any other person to do so, commits an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500) or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to both.