(1) If any owner or occupier or an association of such owners and occupiers of a building or premises fails to appoint Fire Safety Officers under section 28 within a period of thirty days of the receipt of a notice given in this behalf by the Nominated Authority each one of them shall be deemed to be in default jointly and severally.
(2) When the person liable for appointment of such Fire Safety Officers is deemed to be in default, such sum not less than ten rupees per square metre and not exceeding fifty rupees per square metre of area owned or occupied by him including in the common areas in the premises as determined by the Government under this Regulation, may be recovered from him by way of penalty for each month of default or part thereof.
42. Any person who without adequate justification, fails to communicate information in his possession regarding an outbreak of fire shall be deemed to have committed an offence punishable under section 211 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.
43. Whoever fails without reasonable cause to comply with any of the requirements specified in section 23 or section 26 or makes any false declaration towards compliance of fire prevention and life safety measure or of a direction issued in this behalf shall be punishable with fine which may extend to ten thousand rupees or with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with both and where the offence is a continuing one with a further fine which may extend to one thousand rupees for every day after the first during which such offence continues.
44. Any person who wilfully obstructs or interferes with any member of the Fire and Emergency Service, who is engaged in firefighting operations, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to ten thousand rupees, or with both.
45. Any person who knowingly gives or causes to be given a false report of the outbreak of a fire to any person authorised to receive such report by means of a statement, message or otherwise shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to twenty-five thousand rupees.
46. Any person who removes the seal referred to in section 56, except under an order made by the Chief Fire Officer, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to twenty-five thousand rupees, or with both.