Photo shows the Miri Court building.
MIRI (Aug 16): The Magistrates’ Court here today fined a man RM900 in default one month in prison for running a business without a valid licence.
Pui Jin Choi, 55, from Mile 17 Jalan Kuching-Serian, Siburan paid the fine.
Magistrate Leona Dominic Mojiliu convicted Pui on his own guilty plea to a charge framed under Section 3(1) of the Businesses, Professions and Trade Licences Ordinance.
The Section provides for a maximum fine of RM1,000 upon conviction.
According to the facts of the case, Pui ran a business at an unnumbered hut at Jalan Padang Kerbau here without a valid licence from the Miri City Council.
He committed the offence on July 24, 2021 at around 4pm.
ASP Mary Ong prosecuted the case while Pui was unrepresented by counsel.