PUBLIC ORDER AND SECURITY ACT [CHAPTER 11:17] (a) a court of a magistrate, other than a regional, provincial or senior magistrate, shall have special jurisdiction to impose, on summary trial or on remittal by the Attorney-General of the case for trial or sentence, a fine not exceeding level eight26 or imprisonment for a period not exceeding three years; (b) a court of a senior or provincial magistrate shall have special jurisdiction to impose, on summary trial or on remittal by the Attorney-General of the case for trial or sentence, a fine not exceeding level twelve27 or imprisonment for a period not exceeding ten years; (c) a court of a regional magistrate shall have special jurisdiction to impose, on summary trial or on remittal by the Attorney-General of the case for trial or sentence, a fine not exceeding level fourteen or imprisonment for a period not exceeding twenty years28. (2) Subsection (1) shall apply in relation to a person who is convicted of— (a) attempting to contravene or inciting another person or conspiring with another person to contravene any of the provisions of this Act; or (b) being an accessory after the fact to the commission of the crime of contravening any of the provisions of this Act; as though he had been convicted of a contravention of any of the provisions of this Act. (3) Nothing in this section shall be construed as authorising a court to impose for any contravention of any provision of this Act a punishment greater than may, under the relevant provision of this Act, be imposed therefor, or as preventing a court from imposing, as often as it is specially authorised by any enactment to do so, any other punishment than the punishment mentioned in this section. (4) The President may, by proclamation, suspend the operation of subsection (1) and may, in similar manner, restore its operation. 41 Amendment of Schedule (1) Subject to subsection (2), the Minister may, by notice in a statutory instrument, at any time add to, amend or replace the Schedule. (2) Where the Minister seeks to amend the Schedule by reducing the classes of public gathering described in the Schedule, the Minister shall, within the next fourteen days on which Parliament sits after he makes a statutory instrument in terms of subsection (1), lay it before Parliament, and the statutory instrument shall not come into force unless approved by resolution of Parliament. 26 Before 3rd February, 2006, this was $75 000 dollars. 27 Before 3rd February, 2006, this was $200 000 dollars. 28 Before 3rd February, 2006, this was "three hundred thousand dollars or imprisonment for a period not exceeding fifteen years". - 28 -