Provided that the Registrar-General of Voters, constituency registrar or constituency elections officer concerned shall, if he or she considers that a form submitted in terms of this subsection is not substantially in the form prescribed, issue by post or otherwise to the person who submitted the first-mentioned form the proper form prescribed in the First Schedule. Accreditation fees for observers 27.(1) The accreditation fee to be paid in terms of section 14(6)(d) of the Act— (a) by an observer invited from any country on the continent of Africa or from a country that is a member of the African Union, shall be one hundred United States dollars payable in cash; (b) by an observer who is an individual referred to in section 14(5)(d) of the Act, shall be one hundred thousand Zimbabwe dollars payable in cash; (c) by an observer other than one referred to in paragraph (a) or (b), shall be three hundred United States dollars payable in cash: Provided that the Observers’ Accreditation Committee, established in terms of section 14(2) of the Act, may, in its discretion, waive the payment of any fee by any observer or observer group. (2) Every observer shall be accredited for the period beginning on the day before the nomination day for the election concerned and ending on the fifteenth day after the last polling day of the election concerned. Security to be given for purposes of section 168 (3) of the Act 28. The security to be given by or on behalf of a petitioner to an election petition under section 168 (3) for the payment of all costs, charges and expenses that may become payable by the petitioner shall be an amount which is not less than ten million dollars payable in cash or by bank-certified cheque. Complaints to Commission 29. Any complaint referred to in section 190(1) of the Act against any decision of the Registrar-General of Voters or constituency registrar referred to in that section shall be lodged with the Commission within fourteen days of that decision and shall be in form V.25. Offences and penalties 30. Any person who contravenes sections 7(1), 9, 14(3), 24 or 25, shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level ten or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year or to both such fine and such imprisonment; Repeals 31. The regulations specified in the Fourth Schedule are repealed. - 12 -