(a) Any person desirous of conducting any private industrial enterprise;

(b) Any person conducting any private industrial enterprise on the day this Law is enacted by using any type of power which is three horsepower and above or manpower of ten wage-earning workers and above shall register under this Law.

In applying for registration under Section 4, application shall be submitted to the respective State or Divisional Officer-in-charge in the prescribed manner.

The Directorate shall categorize the size of private industrial enterprises in accordance with the prescribed manner as follows:-

(a) small scale private industrial enterprise;

(b) medium scale private industrial enterprise;

(c) large scale private industrial enterprise.

The duties of the entrepreneur are as follows:-

(a)  shall pay the registration fees, fees for the renewal of registration and other payable duties and taxes prescribed by the Directorate;

(b)  shall abide by the terms and conditions of the registration certificate;

(c)  shall conduct the enterprise by opening an account with the relevant bank in the name of its registered enterprise;

(d)  shall maintain systematically and fully as prescribed by the Directorate, the statement of accounts relating to the registered private industrial enterprise and shall submit the same to the relevant Government department, organization or Supervisory Body when required to do so;

(e)  shall submit to the inspection of the person or inspection body assigned by the Directorate or Supervisory Body;

(f)  shall shift the place of enterprise, change the nature of enterprise, amalgamate enterprises and split up enterprises only with the approval of the Directorate;

(g)  shall abide by the orders and directives issued from time to time by the Ministry and the Directorate;

(h)  shall also abide by the existing laws.

When any of the following events occur, registration is invalidated;-

(a)  expiration of the tenure;

(b)  cancellation;

(c)  surrender of the registration certificate by the entrepreneur;

(d)  the enterprise being terminated under any existing law.

No one shall conduct a private industrial enterprise contained in section 4 without obtaining registration under this Law.

An entrepreneur: -

(a)  in distributing and selling the goods he has produced shall not sell without a trade mark:

(b)  shall not violate any provision of section 13:

(c)  shall not fail to comply with any order or decision passed by the Minister and the Director General:

Whoever violates the provision of section 26 shall, on conviction: -

(a)  in the case of conducting a small scale private industrial enterprise, be punished with fine which may extend from a minimum of kyats 5,000 to a maximum of kyats 10,000;

(b)  in the case of conducting a medium scale private industrial enterprise, be punished with fine which may extend from a minimum of kyats 10,000 to a maximum of kyats 20,000:

(c)  in the case of conducting a large scale private industrial enterprise be punished with fine which may extend from a minimum of kyats 20,000 to a maximum of kyats 50,000.

If a person who is convicted of an offence under Section 28 continues in the commission of such offence, he shall be punished with fine at the following rate for each day of the extent of the period of continuance thereof:-

(a)  in the case of a small scale private industrial enterprise, at the rate of kyats 100;

(b)  in the case of a medium scale private industrial enterprise, at the rate of kyats 150;

(c)  in the case of a large scale private industrial enterprise, at the rate of kyats 200.

If the Director General discovers that the entrepreneur has violated any provision of section 27, the Director General may pass any of the following administrative penalties:-

(a)  warning;

(b)  causing damages to be paid;

(c)  suspension of registration subject to a periodical limit or cancellation of registration.