MONEY LENDERS (AMENDMENT)
27. The following is added after section 30—
"Offences relating to licensing court
30A. Any person who-
Ord. No. 69/88
(a) refuses or fails to comply with any lawful order,
requirement or direction of the licensing court; or
(b) disturbs or otherwise interferes with the proceedings
of the licensing court,
commits an offence.".
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28. Section 31 is amended by repealing "body corporate" wherever it Liability for appears and substituting "company".
"Time
29. The following is added after section 32-—-----
limitation for
instituting
certain
32A. Proceedings for an offence under section 24 or 29(3) shall be instituted within 2 years of the commission of the offence.".
offences by bodies corporate
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prosecutions
30. Section 33(2)(a) and (b) is amended by repealing "the First Burden of Schedule" and substituting "Schedule 1".
31. The following are added after section 33—
"General exemptions
(69 of 1988)
33A. (1) The Registrar may, after consultation with the Financial Secretary, by notice in the Gazette—
(a) exempt a class of persons (whether money lenders or not) specified in the notice from all or any of the provisions of this Ordinance specified in the notice;
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(b) exempt a loan, or class of loans, by a class of persons (whether money lenders or not), specified in the notice from all or any of the provisions of this Ordinance specified in the notice.
(2) An exemption under subsection (1) shall be subject to such conditions, if any, as are specified in the notice.
(3) The Registrar may at any time by notice in the Gazette-
(a) revoke an exemption under subsection (1); or
(b) revoke, vary, or add to any condition subject to
which such exemption is granted.
(4) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Ordin- ance, any notice-
(a) under section 21(2) or 27(2) of this Ordinance as in force at any time before the commencement of the Money Lenders (Amendment) Ordinance 1988; and (b) in force immediately before that commencement,
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