Consumer Protection (Fixed Penalty Notice) (Amendment) Regulations, Government Notice no. 17 of 2025

1. These regulations may be cited as the Consumer Protection (Fixed Penalty Notice) (Amendment) Regulations 2025.

2. In these regulations - "principal regulations" means the Consumer Protection (Fixed Penalty Notice) Regulations 2020.

3. Regulation 3 of the principal regulations is amended by adding the following new paragraph, the full stop at the end of paragraph (b) being deleted and replaced by a semicolon - (c) where a person refuses the FPN, the authorised officer who detects the offence shall serve the FPN by sending it forthwith, by registered post to that person's last known residential address or place of business.

4. The First Schedule to the principal regulations is amended, in Part I, by deleting the word "twice" and replacing it by the word "thrice".

5. The Second Schedule to the principal regulations is revoked and replaced by the Second Schedule set out in the Schedule to these regulations.

6. These regulations shall come into operation on 31 March 2025. Made by the Minister on 18 February 2025. SCHEDULE [Regulation 5]

SECOND SCHEDULE [Regulation 3(b)] FINE SN OFFENCE (Rs) 1 Selling or supplying controlled goods at a price 5,000 higher than that which has been fixed - section 3 of the Act 2 Selling or supplying controlled goods at a price 5,000 which includes a mark-up which exceeds the maximum mark -section 4 of the Act 3 Charging VAT where VAT is not chargeable, or 5,000 charging a higher rate or amount of VAT than is lawfully chargeable, whilst selling or supplying goods - section 6 of the Act 4 Failing to affix price label on goods exposed for 5,000 sale (up to 5 different products) or failing to make available to a customer the price of services offered - section 7 of the Act 5 Failing to affix price label on goods exposed for 10,000 sale (6 to 10 different products) - section 7 of the Act 6 Failing to affix price label on goods exposed for 20,000 sale (more than 10 different products) - section 7 of the Act 7 Selling goods at a price higher than the price 5,000 shown on the label affixed pursuant to section 7 of the Act - section of the Act 8 Giving misleading indication as to price at which 3000 goods are sold or supplied - section 9 of the Act 9 Keeping goods specified in the Third Schedule 5,000 to the Act on premises other than on trading premises or registered warehouse - section 13 of the Act 10 Failing to affix a signboard at main entrance of 5,000 warehouse bearing conspicuously the serial registration number of certificate - section 15 of the Act 11 Failing to display a specimen of every goods 5,000 kept for sale/ stored in registered warehouse, iii that part of the trading premises to which the public has access - section 17 of the Act 12 Failing to put up notice accessible to the public 5,000 and/or in accordance with section 18(2) of the Act - section 18 of the Act 13 Using liquefied Petroleum Gas in small cy1indrs 10,000 other than for domestic purposes - regulation 3(a) of the Consumer Protection (Use of Liquefied Petroleum Gas in Small Cylinders) Regulations 2012 14 Failing to submit a return cost within 10 working 10,000 days - regulation 3(l)(a) of the Consumer Protection (consumer Goods) (Maximum Mark- up) Regulations 1998