Cap. 455 Art. 54Administrative penalties.

(1) Notwithstanding any other law providing for the trial and punishment of offences, where SportMalta believes that a person has breached any of the provisions this Act or any regulations made thereunder, SportMalta may give notice in writing to such person describing the breach which the person has committed and the administrative penalty he is required to pay in respect of that breach and ordering the said person to remedy the cause of the breach:

Provided that SportMalta may not require the payment of a penalty exceeding one thousand and one hundred and sixty-four euro and sixty-nine cents (1,164.69).

(2) Where a notice under this article has been given, and the person named in the notice pays the penalty within the time therein indicated, he shall be deemed to have accepted responsibility for the breach specified in the notice unless within twenty-one days of the service of the notice, he appeals from such notice before the Sport Appeals Board.

(3) Where the person to whom notice is given under sub-article

(1) fails to pay the administrative penalty imposed or to remedy the cause of the breach within the time aforesaid, proceedings may be taken against him for enforcement according to law.

(4) The Minister may, for the purpose of this article, from time to time make regulations prescribing the administrative fines that SportMalta may impose.