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Section 30C: Non-payment of fixed penalty

Consumer Protection (Price And Supplies Control) Act

This section is inserted by Act No 1 of 2020, section 8.

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30C. Non-payment of fixed penalty Where a person who has been served with an FPN under section 30A fails to pay the appropriate fine within the time limit mentioned in the FPN and criminal proceedings are instituted against him for the offence in respect of which he was served with the FPN, he shall, notwithstanding this Act or any other enactment, be liable, on conviction, to a fine which shall not be less than twice the fixed penalty in respect of that offence. (c) in section 31, by inserting, after subsection (1), the following new subsection – (1A) The Permanent Secretary may, in respect of the commission of an offence specified in the Fifth Schedule, apply for the suspension of the trade licence for a period not exceeding one month. (d) in section 35, in subsection (2)(a), by adding the following new paragraph – (x) anything which by this Act may or is to be prescribed; (e) by adding the Fifth Schedule set out in the First Schedule to this Act.

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