Penalty for carrying on business without licence

(1) Any person who contravenes section 9, commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and imprisonment , and shall cease to carry on the business concerned. Such person shall further not be entitled either by himself or in association with others to a licence to trade for a period of two years from the date of his conviction. (2) The magistrate of the judicial district in which any person carries on any trade within any town without a licence from the Board for that town may, in addition to any fine imposed by him under sub-section (1), impose a fine of five dollars for every day upon which such person carries on such trade without a licence from the Board, and shall order that such person shall cease carrying on such trade forthwith. (3) Where any person carrying on a trade within any town without a licence from the Board for that town is ordered to cease doing so by a magistrate, such persons, if he fails to do so forthwith, commits an offence and is on summary conviction liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two months. (4) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, the Board may issue a Stop Order to any person who carries on the trade or business in contravention of section 9, or whose licence has been forfeited or suspended by the Board in accordance with 12 section 5, and every person who contravenes or fails to comply with such Stop Order commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to both such fine and imprisonment.