Due to the guidelines and protocols instituted by The Ministry of Health and Wellness and the Office of the Prime Minister as a result of the Covid-19 Pandemic, the Office of the Integrity Commission finds it necessary to extend the deadline for filing of declarations for the financial year ending December 2019 to 30th June 2020.<\/p>\n
All persons in public life are reminded that the Integrity in Public Life Act Chapter 1.19 (The Act) requires such persons to file with the Integrity Commission, a declaration of income, assets and liabilities for the year December 31st of each year.<\/p>\n
\u201cFinancial Year\u201d<\/strong> means any period of 12 months beginning on 1 January in any year.<\/p>\n According to the Act \u201ca person who fails to furnish the Commission a declaration or further particulars thereof, which he or she is required to furnish in accordance with this Act commits an offence, and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $50,000.00 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years or both.\u201d Further \u201cthe commission shall publish the fact in the Gazette and send a report to the Director of Public Prosecution for further action.\u201d<\/p>\n The Office has hereby extended the time for filing to 30th June 2020.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Office of the Integrity Commission finds it necessary to extend the deadline for filing of declarations for the financial year ending December 2019 to 30th June 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7996,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7994\/revisions\/7996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}