Animal Welfare Act 2025

A person convicted of an offence against any provision of this Act in respect of a continuing act or omission—

is liable, in addition to the penalty otherwise applicable to that offence, to a penalty for each day during which the act or omission continued of not more than one‑tenth of the maximum penalty prescribed for that offence; and

is, if the act or omission continues after conviction, guilty of a further offence against that provision and liable, in addition to the penalty otherwise applicable to that further offence, to a penalty for each day during which the act or omission continued after that conviction of not more than one‑tenth of the maximum penalty prescribed for that offence.

If an offence against a provision of this Act consists of an omission to do something that is required to be done, the omission will, for the purposes of subsection (1), be taken to continue for so long as the thing required or directed to be done remains undone after the expiration of the period for compliance with the requirement.