Administrative Punishment Guarantees in Omani Legislation "Customs Law as a Model" Comparative Analytical Study

Abstract

Most legislation suffers from legislative inflation in criminal policy, which prompted some legislation to grant the administration the authority to impose administrative punishment on violators. But with sitting controls and conditions that the administration must respect. Here comes the importance of research in clarifying the guarantees that must be available during the application of administrative penalties. Which leads us to the main question is to what extent the Omani legislator was able to provide guarantees that protect the rights of individuals during the imposition of administrative punishment by the administration in the unified customs law? In the research, we followed the analytical descriptive approach to answer it, with the help of the comparative approach in the paragraphs of the research. We  concluded that the legislator in the unified customs law respects the majority of procedural rules despite not explicitly stating most of them, as we recommended the Omani legislator to adopt an integrated system of criminal law Administrative law, similar to comparative legislation such as French law, so that the regulation includes all guarantees, conditions and bases for applying penalties in the administrative field.