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Prohibition of unlicensed provision of district cooling services
32. Any person who provides district cooling services to any service area without a licence shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $50,000.
Falsely pretending to be employee of Authority or licensee
33. Any person who seeks to obtain entry to any premises by falsely pretending to be an employee of the Authority or a licensee shall be guilty of an offence.
Penalty for obstructing Authority in performance of duties
34. Any person who at any time hinders or obstructs any authorised officer or any employee, agent or contractor of the Authority in the performance and execution of his or her duty under this Act shall be guilty of an offence.
Making of false statement, etc.
35.—(1) Any person who, when giving any information to the Authority or making any application under or for the purposes of any provision of this Act, makes any statement which the person knows to be false in a material particular, or who recklessly makes any statement which is false in a material particular, shall be guilty of an offence. (2) Any person who —(a) wilfully or fraudulently procures or attempts to procure for the person or for any other person any licence under this Act by making or producing or causing to be made or produced any false or fraudulent representation or declaration either verbally or in writing; or (b) knowingly aids or assists therein, shall be guilty of an offence.
Jurisdiction of court
36. Despite any provision to the contrary in the Criminal Procedure Code 2010, a District Court and a Magistrate’s Court have jurisdiction to try any offence under this Act and have power to impose the full penalty or punishment in respect of any offence under this Act.
Police officer or authorised officer may require evidence of identity in certain cases
37.—(1) Any police officer or authorised officer who reasonably believes that any person has committed an offence under this Act may require that person to furnish evidence of that person’s identity and the person must thereupon furnish such evidence of the person’s identity as may be required by the police officer or authorised officer. (2) The occupier of any premises must, if required by any police officer or authorised officer, furnish the occupier’s name and the name and address of the owner of the premises, if known. (3) Any person who —(a) refuses to furnish any information required of the person by any police officer or authorised officer under this section; or (b) wilfully misstates such information, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000.
Duty to enquire before excavation
38. Any person who digs, bores, trenches, grades, excavates or breaks any ground with any mechanical equipment or explosive within the service area or allows that person’s employee or agent to do so without first ascertaining the location of any apparatus belonging to or under the management or control of a licensee that may be interfered with shall be guilty of an offence.
General penalties
39. Any person guilty of an offence under this Act for which no penalty is expressly provided shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both.
Composition of offences
40.—(1) The Authority may, in its discretion, compound any offence under this Act which is prescribed as a compoundable offence by collecting from a person reasonably suspected of having committed the offence a sum not exceeding $3,000. (2) The Authority may, with the approval of the Minister, make regulations to prescribe the offences which may be compounded. (3) All sums collected under this section must be paid to the Authority.
Offences committed by bodies corporate, etc.
41. Where —(a) an offence under this Act has been committed by a company, firm, society or other body of persons; and (b) that offence is proved to have been committed with the authority, consent or connivance of any person who, at the time of the commission of the offence, was a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer or a partner of the company, firm, society or other body of persons or was purporting to act in any such capacity, that person shall also be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
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