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Section 33C: Offences: penalties etc

Immigration Act 2014 · 2014 c. 22View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 3: Access to services etc — CHAPTER 1: Residential tenancies

A person who is guilty of an offence under section 33A or 33B is liable—

on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years, to a fine or to both;
on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding the general limit in a magistrates' court, to a fine or to both.

In the application of this section in relation to an offence committed before 2 May 2022 the reference in subsection (1)(b) to the general limit in a magistrates' court is to be read as a reference to 6 months.

If an offence under section 33A or 33B is committed by a body corporate with the consent or connivance of an officer of the body, the officer, as well as the body, is to be treated as having committed the offence.

In subsection (3) a reference to an officer of a body includes a reference to—

a director, manager or secretary,
a person purporting to act as a director, manager or secretary, and
if the affairs of the body are managed by its members, a member.

Where an offence under section 33A or 33B is committed by a partnership (whether or not a limited partnership) subsection (3) has effect, but as if a reference to an officer of the body were a reference to—

a partner, and
a person purporting to act as a partner.

An offence under section 33A or 33B is to be treated as—

a relevant offence for the purposes of sections 28B and 28D of the Immigration Act 1971 (search, entry and arrest), and
an offence under Part 3 of that Act (criminal proceedings) for the purposes of sections 28E, 28G and 28H of that Act (search after arrest).

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