Cap. 549 Art. 78Imposition of daily fines.

Subject to the provisions of regulations made under this

Act, and without prejudice to the Authority’s powers set out in article 77, when an operation or a site is subject to a stop order or to a compliance order, and the provisions of the said stop order or compliance order are not abided with, the operation or site may be subject to a daily fine that starts accruing from the date of the first notification of the stop order or compliance order to any of the parties to whom the order is served according to the provisions of article 76. Any person subject to a stop order who fails to comply with the said order, or when a compliance order has not been appealed or where a compliance order has been appealed but has been confirmed, as the case may be, and the person concerned subject to a compliance order fails to comply with the said order within the period therein prescribed, such person shall be liable to a maximum penalty of not more than one hundred and fifty euro (€150) for every day the default continues after the expiration of the said period as the Authority may prescribe under the said regulations; and the Authority may recover such penalty from the said person as a civil debt owing to it.