GHANA STANDARDS (CERTIFICATION MARK) (AMENDMENT) RULES, 2019 (L.I. 2388)

GHANA STANDARDS (CERTIFICATION MARK) (AMENDMENT) RULES, 2019 (L.I. 2388) IN exercise of the power conferred on the Board of the Standards Authority by section 9 of the Standards Authority Act, 1973 (N.R.C.D. 173), these Rules are made this 8th day of July, 2019. Rule 8 of L.I. 662 amended The Ghana Standards (Certification Mark) Rules, 1970 (L.I. 662) is amended by the substitution for rule 8 of— "(8) Any person who (a) contravenes the provisions of rule 1 of these Rules, (b) prevents an officer authorised by the Authority to inspect any premises or examine or take samples of any goods as required under rule 4 or fails to keep any record, return or other document which he is requested to keep under these Rules or, on being requested by such officer to furnish a record, return or other document, fails so to do within the period specifies in the request, or (c) furnishes a false or incorrect record, return or document, commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of not less than one hundred penalty units and not more than five hundred penalty units or to a term of imprisonment of not less than thirty days and not more than one year or to both and in a case of a continuing offence, to a further fine of not more than fifty penalty units for each day that the contravention continues."