and Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations, 2021

L.N. 329 of 2021

CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES ACT

(CAP. 442)

Co-operative Societies (Establishment of Administrative Penalties

and Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations, 2021

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by articles 17 and 108 of

the Co-operative Societies Act, the Minister for Energy, Enterprise and

Sustainable Development has made the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Co-operative Societies Citation.

(Establishment of Administrative Penalties and Sanctions)

(Amendment) Regulations, 2021 and these regulations shall be read

and construed as one with the Co-operative Societies (Establishment of S.L. 442. 04.

Administrative Penalties and Sanctions) Regulations, hereinafter

referred to as "the principal regulations".

Regulation 3 of the principal regulations shall be Substitutes

substituted by the following new regulation

" Civil debt

The Board shall have the power to impose

constituting an

administrative

penalties and sanctions in accordance with

executive title.

the Schedule and such administrative penalty or sanction

shall be payable to the Board as a civil debt constituting

an executive title for the purposes of Title VII of Part I of

the Second Book of the Code of Organization and Civil

Procedure as if the payment of the amount of the fine had

been ordered by a judgement of a court of civil

jurisdiction.".

3. Regulation 6 of the principal regulations shall be Substitutes

substituted by the following new regulation

The Board may, in exceptional circumstances

that a public health emergency is declared or regulations

administrative

come into force in accordance with article 26 of the

Public Health Act, during the period when the public

health emergency is in force or the regulations are in

force suspend the period when it imposes penalties and

administrative sanctions established in the Schedule

resulting from non-compliance with articles 48, 64(1) and

65(1) of the Act up to a maximum of seventy-five (75)

days until the public health emergency is lifted by the

Superintendent of Public Health or the regulations are no

longer in force.".

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