Prescribing fines for breach of regulations or by-laws

(1) The Minister, the Director of Health Services or a Town Council, when making any regulation or by-law, as the case may be, under this Act, may prescribe the fine with which the contravention thereof shall be punishable, but so that such bylaws. 102 fine shall not exceed the sum specified in this Act or, where no sum is specified, the sum of fifty dollars for each first offence or one hundred dollars for a second or subsequent offence and in the case of a continuing offence a further fine of ten dollars for every day during which such offence is continued, and all such regulations or by-laws shall be so made as to allow of the recovery of any less sum than the full fine prescribed. (2) Any person who contravenes any regulation or by-law made under this Act, for the breach of which no penalty is prescribed, shall be liable to a fine which shall not exceed for any one offence the sum of fifty dollars or, in the case of a continuing offence, the sum of ten dollars for every day during which such offence is continued.