Continuing offences
139A Continuing offences
This section applies to a provision of this Act or the regulations requiring a person to do, or stop doing, something (a continuing requirement provision) regardless of whether—
the requirement is imposed by a notice or in another way, or
the person is required to do, or stop doing, something within a specified period.
A person who is guilty of an offence because the person contravenes a continuing requirement provision—
continues, until the requirement is complied with and despite the fact a 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.
This section does not apply to the extent a requirement imposed on a person is revoked.
This provision refers to the regulations (the regulations
). Made under this Act:
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