Cap. 496 чл. 27Failure to comply with notice. Cap. 586. Cap. 586.

(1) Where a public authority or an officer of such an authority refuses or, without a good reason, fails to comply with -

(a) so much of a decision notice as requires steps to be taken; Data Protection Act, and the Commissioner may also levy an administrative fine against the defaulting authority or officer thereof as provided for by article 42(3) of the Data Protection Act.

(2) Where a public authority fails to comply with an information notice, or where the Commissioner believes that an offence in terms of article 43 is being or is about to be committed, the Commissioner may act to secure compliance with the notice or to prevent the offence from being committed using the powers of entry and search vested in the Commissioner under article 16(1) of the Data Protection Act, which shall be applicable for this purpose.

(3) For the purposes of this article, a public authority which, in purported compliance with an information notice -

(a) makes a statement which it knows to be false in a material respect; or

(b) recklessly makes a statement which is false in a material respect, shall be taken to have failed to comply with the notice.