Cap. 300 Art. 5Penalties.

(1) Any alien, and any other person who aids or abets any such alien, and any intermediary agent, acting in contravention of, or failing to comply with, any of the provisions of the foregoing articles, or who does anything which is not lawful thereunder shall be guilty of an offence against this Act and for each such offence shall be liable, upon a first conviction, to a fine (multa) not exceeding two thousand and three hundred and twenty-nine euro and thirty-seven cents (2,329.37), upon a second conviction to a fine (multa) of not less than two thousand and three hundred and twenty-nine euro and thirty-seven cents (2,329.37) and not exceeding eleven thousand and six hundred and forty-six euro and eighty-seven cents (11,646.87) and upon a third or subsequent conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months and to a fine (multa) not exceeding eleven thousand and six hundred and forty-six euro and eighty-seven cents (11,646.87), and, in the case of a continuing offence upon any conviction, to an additional fine (multa) not exceeding two hundred and thirty-two euro and ninety-four cents (232.94) for each day during which the offence has continued.

(2) Without prejudice to the provisions of any other law relating to forfeiture, any funds, equipment or other movable thing whatsoever, whether of the same kind or not, kept or used for or in connection with any restricted activity or broadcast held in contravention of any of the provisions of this Act, shall be forfeited in favour of the Government, and such forfeiture shall be ordered by the court in any case and whether or not such funds, equipment interference" means any offence against any of the foregoing provisions of this Act: Provided that in the case of an alien broadcast, no such foreign interference shall be deemed to subsist if the person or the political party, in whose favour or to whose benefit such a broadcast is made or intended to be made, proves that he, or the political party, as the case may be, did not make such broadcast or in any way aid or abet prior to, during, or after the transmission, any person in such broadcast.