Cap. 513 Art. 22Administrative penalties. Cap. 12.

(1) Without prejudice to any other provisions under this Act, or other provisions of regulations, made under this Act, which the Director is entitled to enforce, the Director shall have the power to impose in respect of any person who infringes any provision of this Act or of any regulations made thereunder, or who fails to comply with any directive or decision given by the Director or the Board, whether under this Act, or regulations prescribed thereunder, or under any other law which the Director is entitled to enforce, an administrative fine using such procedures as established in this Act or regulations made thereunder.

(2) An administrative fine imposed shall not, unless provided otherwise by or under this Act, exceed two hundred thousand euro (€200,000), and two thousand euro (€2,000) each day, in the case where the infringement persists: Provided that all the fines provided for in this article shall be due to the Government as a civil debt and following the service of a judicial act, in terms of article 466 of the Code of Organization and Civil Procedure, which is either not opposed or the opposition of which is denied, according to the provisions of the said article, the same administrative fine shall constitute an executive title for all the effects and purposes of Title VII of Part I of Book Second of the Code of Organization and Civil Procedure.