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29M. Advisory guidelines

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Last amended by an amending law of 2022.

(1)

The Controller may issue advisory guidelines for the purposes of providing practical guidance or certainty in respect of one or more requirements imposed under this Part or any regulations made for the purposes of this Part.

(2)

The advisory guidelines may —

(a)

be of general or specific application; or

(b)

specify that different provisions of the advisory guidelines apply to different circumstances, or apply to different persons or classes of persons.

(3)

The Controller may amend or revoke the whole or part of any advisory guidelines issued under subsection (1).

(4)

Advisory guidelines issued or amended under this section do not have any legislative effect.

(5)

Where a person fails to comply with any provision of any advisory guidelines issued under this section applicable to the person —

(a)

the failure does not of itself render the person liable to criminal proceedings; but (b)the failure may, whether in civil or criminal proceedings, be relied on by any party to the proceedings as tending to establish or to negate any liability that is in question in the proceedings.

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