Cap. 549 Art. 80Special procedure.

(1) The Authority may impose an administrative fine upon any person:

(a) who infringes any provision of this Act, regulations prescribed thereunder or of any other law with which the Authority is entitled to secure compliance and to enforce; or

(b) who fails to comply with any directive or decision given by the Authority whether under this Act, regulations prescribed thereunder or under any other law with which the Authority is entitled to secure compliance and to enforce; or

(c) who fails to abide by any stop order or compliance order and the provisions therein; or

(d) who fails to comply with any condition of any authorisation granted under this Act, including with failure to provide data or information required in authorisation conditions in a timely and/or appropriate manner: Provided that if the infringement is committed by a body corporate and is proved to have been committed with the consent, or involvement of, or to be attributable to, any gross negligence on the part of a person being a director, manager, secretary or other officer, however so described, of such body corporate or a person who was purporting to act in any such capacity then such person and such body corporate shall be responsible for the said infringement and shall be jointly and severally liable for the payment of any administrative penalty imposed by the Authority as a consequence thereof.

(2) An administrative fine imposed under sub-article (1) shall not exceed one hundred thousand euro (€100,000) for each contravention or one thousand five hundred euro (€1,500) for each day of non-compliance, from the date of the notice of the imposition of the administrative fine given by the Authority.