(d) to pay a financial penalty of such amount not exceeding $1 million as the Commission thinks fit.
(4) The Commission shall, in any direction requiring the payment of a financial penalty, specify the date before which the financial penalty is to be paid, being a date not earlier than the end of the period within which an application for reconsideration of the direction, or an appeal against the direction, may be brought under section 31 or 34, respectively.
(5) The interest payable on the outstanding amount of any financial penalty imposed under subsection (2)(d) and for payment by instalment (as may be directed by the Commission in its discretion) of any financial penalty imposed under subsection (2)(d) shall be at such rate as the Commission may direct, which shall not exceed the rate prescribed in the Rules of Court in respect of judgment debts.
(6) Any interest ordered to be paid under subsection (5) shall form part of the penalty payable and be enforced in accordance with section 30.
(2) Unless the Commission decides otherwise in any particular case, an application for reconsideration shall not suspend the effect of the direction or decision to be reconsidered except in the case of an application for reconsideration of a direction to pay a financial penalty or of the amount thereof.
(3) Unless the Appeal Committee decides otherwise in any particular case, the making of an appeal under this section shall not suspend the effect of the direction or decision to which the appeal relates except in the case of an appeal against the imposition of a financial penalty or the amount thereof.
(b) impose or revoke, or vary the amount of, a financial penalty;
(b) from any direction of the Appeal Committee as to the amount of a financial penalty.
Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in the Criminal Procedure Code (Cap. 68), a District Court shall have jurisdiction to try any offence under this Act and shall have power to impose the full penalty or punishment in respect of the offence.
Any person guilty of an offence under this Act for which no penalty is expressly provided shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years or to both and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $1,000 for every day or part thereof during which the offence continues after conviction.