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(aa) levying, with or without exception or exemption, a charge on persons or any category of persons who furnish particulars pursuant to any regulation made under this section, and prescribing the amount or method of ascertaining the amount of such charge and the mode and time of payment thereof;

(ab) imposing or providing for the imposition of a pecuniary penalty, recoverable civilly, on any person who, being required under any regulation made under this Ordinance to lodge a declaration with the Commissioner in connexion with the import or export of any article, fails to lodge such a declaration or fails to lodge such a declaration within a prescribed period of time;

(ac) empowering the Commissioner to waive the payment of any pecuniary penalty imposed under regulations made under paragraph (ab) and to refund any such pecuniary penalty which has been paid;

(ad) empowering the Director to require an applicant for a licence to deposit with him, before the issue of a licence, such sum of money as the Director may specify;

(ae) providing for the forfeiture to the Crown by a magistrate of all or any of the sum of money deposited under regulations made under paragraph (ad);

(af) prescribing any thing which is to be or may be prescribed under this Ordinance; and

(ag) generally for the better carrying out of the provisions and purposes of this Ordinance. (Amended, L.N. 294/82)

(2) Subject to subsection (3), regulations made under this section may provide that a contravention of any such regulation shall be an offence and may prescribe penalties therefor.

(3) Regulations made under this section may prescribe that a contravention or breach thereof shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding $500,000 and imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years. (Amended, 60 of 1980, s. 5)

(4) No regulation made under paragraph (aa), (ab), (ac), (ad) or (ae) shall come into operation until it has been approved by resolution of the Legislative Council.

32. The Legislative Council may by resolution provide for the imposition of a levy upon any person required under this Ordinance to furnish information for the purpose of compiling statistics of overseas trade and to provide for the method of determination of the levy and the mode and time of payment thereof.

Power to levy by resolution of Legislative Council.