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Article 44
 

1) The Minister may, in agreement with the Commission, make regulations for the better carrying out of the provisions of this Act and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, such regulations may make provisions, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act:


(a) for prescribing any form or procedure for which no express procedure is contained in this Act, and for amending any forms that may be required under this Act;


(b) for providing for administrative fines and sanctions in respect of any breaches of the provisions of this Act or of regulations made thereunder;


(c) to provide for the procedure for the imposition of administrative fines and sanctions, for the procedure for the exercise of rights of appeal in respect of such fines and sanctions to the courts of civil jurisdiction and for the conditions under which such fines and sanctions shall become an executive title in terms of the provisions of the Code of. Organization and Civil Procedure or of any other law in force from time to time:


Provided that any administrative fines or other sanctions provided for in regulations made under this Act shall not amount to more than fifty thousand euro (€50,000) in respect of each offence, to more than five thousand euro (€5,000) for each day during which the offence continues or to the suspension of any official of a political party for a period of more than five years;


(d) to change, notwithstanding the provisions of this Act or of any other law, the maximum amount of permissible campaign expenditure by candidates in any general election, in any election of members of the European Parliament or in any local council election;


(e) to provide for the format in which campaign expenditure is to be accounted for, to provide for the forms to be used for such purpose and to issue guidelines to the Electoral Commission concerning the methodology to be used and the matters to be taken into consideration in the examination of returns of election expenses by candidates at any general election, an election of members of the European Parliament or a local council election.


(2) Political parties and other interested persons may contest the finding of any breach of the provisions of this Act and the infliction of administrative fines and sanctions by the Commission in the First Hall, Civil Court, by means of a sworn application filed within thirty (30) days from the imposition of such fine or sanction:


Provided that the provisions of the Code of Organization. and Civil Procedure shall apply to such sworn application