Section 30C: Non-payment of fixed penalty
This section is inserted by COVID-19 (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2020, section 8.
consolidated text (as at 2015, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
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.