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Imposition of penalty not to bar civil action.
Reduction, variation, remission, and application of fees and charges.
Remission of penalties.
Administrative appeals.
28 of 1950, Schedule.
(Cap. 1, rules).
Interpretation.
or of the proceeds of any forfeit is expressed to be recoverable by any person or may be granted by any authority to any person.
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39. The imposition of a penalty or fine by any enactment shall not relieve any person from liability to answer for damages to a person injured.
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40. Any fee or charge by or under any enactment made payable to the Crown or the Government or to any public body or public officer, not being a fee or charge which a judge has power to regulate by rule or order of court-
(a) may be reduced or varied by order of the Governor in Council published in the Gazette: Provided that any variation thereof shall not exceed the original figure;
(b) may be remitted or refunded in whole or in part in any particular case and on any special ground by the Governor in Council;
(c) subject as aforesaid shall be paid into the general revenue of the Colony.
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41. It shall be lawful for the Governor to remit, in whole or in part, any sum of money which, under any enactment now in force or hereafter to be passed, may be imposed as a penalty or forfeiture on a convicted offender, although such money may be in whole or in part payable to some party other than the Crown, and to order the discharge of any person who may be imprisoned for non-payment of any sum of money so imposed.
PART VII.
PROVISIONS AS TO ADMINISTRATIVE APPEALS.
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42. (1) Whenever in any enactment provision is made for an appeal other than by way of petition to the Governor in Council-
(a) the rules entitled Administrative Appeals Rules shall apply to the extent that specific provision is not contained in such enactment;
(b) nothing therein contained shall be deemed to prevent any person from applying to the Supreme Court for a mandamus, injunction, prohibition or any other order should he elect so to do, instead
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