Section 14
Penalties
of Business Names Ordinance, 1932
—
(1)
The proprietor or each partner as the case may be of any firm required to register under this Ordinance which carries on business without obtaining a certificate of registration, or after cancellation of the certificate under section 7(3), shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty, a fine of one hundred ringgit for every day the business is carried on without such certificate or after the same has been cancelled.
[Amended by Ordinance 16 of 1957 and recast by Commissioners of
Law Revision]
(2)
If any person without reasonable excuse, makes default in rendering to the Registrar any information required of him by this
Ordinance or fails to give effect to any of the requirements thereof, the penalties for which are not specially provided for in this Ordinance, such person shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty, a fine of fifty ringgit for every day during which the default or omission continues.
[Amended by Ordinance 16 of 1957 and recast by Commissioners of
Law Revision]
(3)
If any person shall, without reasonable excuse, render any information to the Registrar which is materially incorrect or false, such person shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty, imprisonment for six months and a fine of one thousand ringgit.
[Amended by Ordinance 16 of 1957]
Rules
*15. The Minister may make rules for the better carrying into effect of the provisions of this Ordinance and for prescribing anything which is required to be prescribed.
[Mod. F.L.N. 285/65.]
[Amended by Commissioners of Law Revision]
* See Business Names (Fees) Rules, 1959 (G.N.S. 57 of 1959).
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