Acts Online
GT Shield

Housing Consumers Protection Measures Act, 1998 (Act No. 95 of 1998)

Chapter V : Legal Enforcement

21. Offences

 

 

1) Any person who-
a) knowingly withholds information required in terms of this Act or furnishes information that he or she knows to be false or misleading; or

and every director, trustee, managing member or officer of a home builder who knowingly permits such contravention, shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding R25 000, or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year, on each charge.

 

2) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other Act, a magistrate’s court shall have jurisdiction to impose any penalty prescribed by this Act.