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Offences and general penalty
Cap. 231, s. 16 · Revised Edition 2020
(1) Any person who by any act or omission contravenes or fails to comply with the provisions of this Act shall, unless a penalty is otherwise specifically provided, be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months.
(2) Where a person is, by virtue of any power contained in this Act or in any regulation made thereunder, required to do or to abstain from doing any act or thing and makes default in complying with any such requisition, a magistrate may on conviction, in addition to any other penalty which he may impose, order such person to comply with such requisition and (Third Party Risks) 25 annex to any such order any condition as to time or mode of action or otherwise which he may think necessary to enforce compliance therewith.
(3) Every person who makes default in complying with any such order of the magistrate may, in the discretion of the court,
be ordered to pay a sum of four dollars for every day during which he is thereafter in default, or to be imprisoned until he has remedied his default,
Provided that any such person shall not for such non- compliance be liable to the payment of any sums amounting in the aggregate to more than one hundred dollars or to imprisonment for any periods amounting in the aggregate to more than two months in addition to any other fine or term of imprisonment to which he may otherwise be liable.
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