The Standards (Amendment) Act, 2012

 

AN ACT to Amend the Standards Act.
[24th May, 2012.]


BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and the House of Representatives ofJamaica, and by the authority of the same, as follows:­

1. This Act may be cited as the Standards (Amendment) Act, 2012, and shall be read and construed as one with the Standards Act (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act) and all amendments thereto.

2. Section 11 ofthe principal Act is amended-

(a) by renumbering the section as subsection (1) of the section;

(b) in subsection (1) as renumbered-

(i) by deleting the semicolon at the end of paragraph G) and substituting therefor a full stop;

(ii) by deleting paragraph (k); and

(c) by inserting the following as subsection (2)­

" (2) Regulations made under this section may prescribe greater penalties than those specified in section 29 of the Interpretation Act, and the maximum penalty that may be so prescribed shall be a fine not exceeding three million dollars or imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve months or both such fine and imprisonment.".

3. Sections 12 (1) and 13 (5) ofthe principal Act are respectively amended by deleting all the words appearing after the words "a fine", wherever they appear, and substituting therefor in each case the words "not exceeding three million dollars or a term not exceedil\lg twelve months or both such fine and imprisonment".

4. The principal Act is amended by inserting next after section 16 the following-

17. The Minister may by order, subject to affirmative resolution, amend any monetary penalty specified in this Act.".

 

Passed in the House of Representatives this 1st day of May, 2012.


LLOYD B. SMITH
Deputy Speaker

 

 

Passed in the Senate this 4th day ofMay, 2012.


STANLEY ST. J. REDWOOD
President.

 


This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the authenticated impression ofthe foregoing Act. and has been found by me to be a true and correct printed copy ofthe said Act.


Clerk to the Houses ofParliament

 

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