174 No. 15 of 2009]

Information and Communication
Technologies

Power of
DirectorGeneral to
compound
certain
offences

88. Where the Authority is satisfied, after an investigation, or
where any person admits that the person has committed an offence
under this Act, the Director-General may compound the offence
by collecting from that person such sum of money as the DirectorGeneral considers appropriate, but not exceeding fifty percent of
the maximum amount of the fine to which that person would have
been liable on conviction, and no person having made such payment
shall be thereafter prosecuted in relation to the offence so
compounded.

Offences
cognizable

89. An offence under this Act shall be deemed to be a
cognizable offence for the purposes of the Criminal Procedure
Code.

Cap.88

PART XI
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Information to
be furnished to
Authority

(1) The Authority may request any licensee to furnish
within such period as the Authority may determine such documents
and other information as the Authority may require for the better
carrying out of its functions under this Act.
(2) A person who fails to furnish information in accordance
with subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable, upon
conviction; to a fine not exceeding eighty thousand penalty units or
to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months, or to
both.

Regulations

(1) The Minister may, by statutory instrument, make
regulations for or with respect to any matter which by this Act is
required or permitted to be prescribed or which is necessary or
expedient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the
provisions of this Act.
(2) The Minister may, by statutory instrument, amend the
Schedules to this Act.

Repeal of
Cap. 469
and cup.
169

92. The Telecommunications Act,1994 and the Radio
Communications Act, 1994 are hereby repealed.

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