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INDUSTRIAL ASSURANCE (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1979 - SECT 46

46.(1) Any body of persons, not being a collecting society or an industrial
assurance company, which carries on industrial assurance business shall,
without prejudice to any penalty to which it may thereby become liable, be
liable to pay to the owner of any policy of industrial assurance issued by
that body such sum as an industrial assurance company which has knowingly
issued an illegal policy is under this Order liable to pay to the owner of
that illegal policy.

(2) Notwithstanding any limitation on the time for the taking of proceedings
contained in any Act or Measure, summary proceedings for offences under this
Order or the Friendly Societies Act, where the society by or in respect of
which, or the person by or in respect of when, the offence is alleged to have
been committed is a collecting society or an officer of such a society, may be
commenced at any time within one year of the first discovery thereof by the
Commissioner, but not in any case after more than three years from the
commission of the offence.

(3) The court by which a fine is imposed in pursuance of this Order (except
Article 43) may direct that the whole or any part thereof shall be applied in
or towards the payment of the costs of the proceedings.

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