No.12 2015 "(fl) a direction by the Registrar in terms of section 26 not to establish a branch; or"; (b) 36 in subsection (3) by the insertion of the following proviso, the existing proviso becoming proviso (i)"(ii) the Minister shall determine the appealA. within fourteen days, in the case of an appeal against a direction by the Registrar in tenns of section 26; B. ninety days, in the case of any other appeal.". New section inserted in Cap. 24:20 The principal Act is amended by the insertion after section 77 of the following section- "77 A Issuance of civil penalty orders (1) Where in this Act provision is made for the imposition of a civil penalty, such provision shall be construed as authorising the Registrar to issue to the person specified by this Act to be responsible for the infringement in respect of which the penalty is imposed (hereinafter called "the infringer") any one of the following kinds of orders (called a "civil penalty order") addressed to an infringer, which order shall be issued within such of the following parameters as may be appropriate to the infringement, namely a civil penalty order imposing(a) a fixed civil penalty for a specified completed and irremediable infringement, for which(i) the penalty shall not exceed a fixed penalty of level ten or the penalty prescribed by or under this Act, as the case may be; and (ii) the penalty for each day (beginning on the day after the issuance of the civil penalty order) during which the infringer fails to pay the civil penalty, shall not exceed a penalty of level three (twenty United States dollars) per day for a maximum period of one hundred and eight (180) days; and (b) a fixed civil penalty for a specified completed but remediable infringement(i) for which the prescribed penalty shall not exceed a fixed penalty oflevel five (one hundred United States dollars) or the penalty prescribed by orunderthisAct, as the case may be; and (ii) which must be suspended conditionally upon the infringer taking the remedial action specified in the civil penalty order within the time specified in that order; and (iii) which (upon the civil penalty becoming operative because of non-compliance with the requested remedial action) may provide for the prescribed penalty for each day (beginning on the day after the last day on which the infringer should have effected the remedial action) during which the infringer fails to pay the civil penalty referred to in subparagraph(i), which shall not exceed a penalty of level two (ten 250

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