Continuing offences
11.6 Continuing offences
A person who is guilty of an offence because the person fails to comply with a requirement made by or under this Act or the regulations (whether the requirement is imposed by a notice or in any other way) to do or cease to do something (whether or not within a specified period or before a particular time)—
continues, until the requirement is complied with and despite the fact that any specified period has expired or time has passed, to be liable to comply with the requirement, and
is guilty of a continuing offence for each day the contravention continues.
This section does not apply to an offence if the relevant provision of this Act or the regulations does not provide for a penalty for a continuing offence.
Note.
For example, an offence for which the maximum penalty is required to be determined as provided by section 11.7 is an offence that provides for a continuing penalty.
This section does not apply to the extent that a requirement of a notice is revoked.
This provision refers to the regulations (the regulations
). Made under this Act:
This Act’s bill:Explanatory memorandumSecond reading speech
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