On Amendments to the Code of Administrative Offences of Georgia

On Amendments to the Code of Administrative Offences of Georgia

Law of Georgia

On Amendments to the Code of Administrative Offences of Georgia

The Parliament of Georgia enacts:

I. The following amendments shall be made to the Code of Administrative Offences of Georgia (Bulletin of the Supreme Council of the Georgian SSR, 1984, Annex to No. 12, Art. 421):

1. The Code shall be supplemented with Article 229² reading as follows:

„Article 2292. Department of Energy Supervision and Fuel Quality of the Ministry of Fuel and Energy of Georgia

1. The Department of Energy Supervision and Fuel Quality of the Ministry of Fuel and Energy of Georgia shall consider cases of administrative offences provided for by Articles 92, 93, 94, 96, 961, 1735, 1774, 1775 and 195 of this Code (for offences committed in the field of fuel and energy).

2. The right to consider cases of administrative offences and to impose administrative penalties on behalf of the Department of Energy Supervision and Fuel Quality of the Ministry of Fuel and Energy of Georgia shall be vested in:

a) the Chairperson of the Department of Energy Supervision and Fuel Quality and his/her deputies – to fine up to one hundred minimum amounts of labour remuneration;

b) the heads of the territorial divisions of energy supervision and fuel quality and their deputies – to fine up to seventy minimum amounts of labour remuneration“.

2. Article 239 shall be supplemented with paragraph 34 reading as follows:

„34. The protocol on administrative offences provided for by Articles 92, 93, 94, 96, 961, 1735, 1774, 1775 and 195 of this Code in the field of fuel and energy shall be drawn up by the officials of the Department of Energy Supervision and Fuel Quality of the Ministry of Fuel and Energy of Georgia authorised for that purpose“.

II. This Law shall enter into force on the 15th day after publication.

President of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze.

Tbilisi,

29 June 2000.

No. 439_IIs