Safety duty offence: Category 1
21 Safety duty offence: Category 1
A person commits a Category 1 offence if —
the person has a safety duty; and
the person knowingly engages in conduct that breaches that duty and —
exposes an individual to whom that duty is owed to a risk of death or serious injury or illness; or
in the case of a breach of a duty under section 20, exposes an individual to whom the duty holder under that section owes a duty to a risk of death or serious injury or illness.
Penalty for this subsection:
for an individual, imprisonment for 2 years and a fine of $300 000;
for a body corporate, a fine of $3 000 000.
A Category 1 offence is a crime.
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