Consumer Affairs Authority (Amendment) Act 2021 · As enacted
2. Amendment of section 60 of Act…
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Official translationFrom Department of Government Printing, unchanged
Section 60 of the Consumer Affairs Authority Act,
No. 9 of 2003 (hereinafter referred to as the “principal enactment”) is hereby amended as follows :-
by the insertion immediately after subsection (4)
thereof, the following: -
“(4A) Any person who fails or refuses to comply with an order made under subsection (5)
of section 20 or acts in contravention of such order commits an offence and shall on conviction after trial before a Magistrate, be liable to -
where such person is not a body corporate, to a fine not less than rupees one hundred thousand and not exceeding rupees five hundred thousand or to an imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and imprisonment in the case of a first offence, and to a fine not less than rupees two hundred thousand and not exceeding rupees one million or to an imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding one year or to both such fine and imprisonment in the case of a subsequent offence; or
where such person is a body corporate, to a fine not less than rupees five hundred thousand and not exceeding rupees five million in the case of a first offence and to a fine not less than rupees one million and not exceeding rupees ten million in the case of a subsequent offence.”; and
in subsection (5) thereof, by the substitution for the words and figures “provisions referred to in subsections (1), (2), (3) and (4) of this section” of the words and figures “provisions referred to in subsections (1), (2), (3), (4) or (4A) of this section”.