Cap. 279 Art. 6Information with respect to proceeds, expenses, etc.

(1) Without prejudice to any other requirements of any regulations made under this Act, the promoter of any collection shall -

(a) within one month after the last day of the collection or the day on which the licence expires, whichever is the earlier, publish in any two local newspapers a statement made in all respects as required by this article and showing:

(i) the name of the promoter;

(ii) the purpose of the collection and the names of the intended beneficiaries therefrom;

(iii) the total proceeds of the collection;

(iv) the total amount of the expenses incurred; and

(b) within five weeks from either of the days aforesaid, whichever is the earlier, deliver to the Commissioner a statement made in the form set out in the Second Schedule to this Act and otherwise in all respects as required by this Act and containing the information therein indicated as required, certified as correct by the promoter or, when the promoter is a body of persons, by an individual acting in the name and on behalf of the promoter, together with newspaper cuttings showing that the publication required by paragraph (a) has been effected.

(2) Where the total proceeds of a collection exceeds one thousand and one hundred sixty-four euro and sixty-nine cents (1,164.69)the statements required to be published or delivered under subarticle (1) shall be certified as correct and signed by a duly qualified auditor who has had no connection with the collection. anything which by this Act is required or authorised to be prescribed, for regulating the manner in which collections, in respect of which licences have been granted or orders have been made under article 4, may be carried out and the conduct of promoters and collectors in relation to such collections.

(2) The Minister may also, by regulations made under subarticle (1), amend the Schedules to this Act and, without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred by the foregoing provisions of this article, any regulations made as aforesaid may make provision for all or any of the following matters, that is to say -

(a) for requiring and regulating the use by collectors of prescribed badges and prescribed certificates of authority, and the issue, custody, production and return thereof, and in particular for requiring collectors on demand by a Police officer or by any occupant of a house visited to produce their certificates of authority;

(b) for requiring that the prescribed certificates of authority of the collectors shall be authenticated in a manner approved by the Commissioner and that their prescribed badges shall have inserted therein or annexed thereto in a manner and form so approved a general indication of the purpose of the collection;

(c) for prohibiting persons below a prescribed age from acting, and others from causing them to act, as collectors;

(d) for preventing annoyance to occupants of houses visited by collectors or to persons in any street or other public place;

(e) for requiring prescribed information with respect to any matter connected with the collection to be furnished, in the case of licensed collections to the Commissioner, and in the case of collections in respect of which an order has been made under article 4 to the Minister, and for requiring the information given to be vouched and authenticated in such manner as may be prescribed.

(3) Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with any of the provisions of a regulation made under this Act shall be guilty of an offence.