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Incidental provisions relating to the sanctioning of offensive businesses
Cap. 40, s. 130 · Revised Edition 2020
(1) An establishment order in respect of any business may authorise the carrying on of the business during such period as may be specified in the order and during such further period, if any, as the Director of Health Services may allow.
(2) Any person who carries on the business after the expiration of the period so specified or, if that period has been duly extended, the expiration of the extended period, as the case may be, is guilty of an offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars and to a further fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars for every day on which the offence continues after conviction.
(3) An extension of time under this section may be granted subject to such conditions as the Director of Health Services thinks fit to impose.
(4) Where, after the making of an establishment order, or the granting of any extension of time, for the purposes of section 129 of this Act, any alteration occurs in the circumstances affecting the business to which the order or extension relates, the Director of Health Services, may, at any time after the occurrence of the alteration, either by a fresh order or by endorsement on the original order or on any document evidencing the grant of the extension, do all or any of the following things,
(a) if the original order was made, or the extension was granted,
unconditionally,
attach thereto such conditions as he thinks fit;
(b) modify or waive any conditions previously imposed;
(c) impose additional or substituted conditions,
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Provided that at least fourteen days before exercising any of his powers under this subsection with respect to any business,
the Director of Health Services may publish his intention to do so in the manner prescribed by section 129 (5) of this Act, in relation to an application for an order under that section, and unless an application for such an order or endorsement has been made by the person carrying on the business, shall give that person notice of his intention.
(5) If any condition imposed or modified as aforesaid is contravened in the case of any business, the person for the time being carrying on the business is guilty of an offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars and to a further fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars for every day on which the offence continues after conviction.
(6) There shall be charged for every order or endorsement under this section such fee, not exceeding ten dollars, as the Director of Health Services may fix.
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