Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

COOPERATIVES ACT 2002 (REPEALED) - SECT 452

    (1)     If a provision of this Act requires an act to be done and it has not been done, the obligation to do the act continues until the act is done—

        (a)     even if a person has been convicted of an offence in relation to the failure to do the act; and

        (b)     even if the provision required the act to be done within a particular period or before a particular time and that period has ended or that time has passed.

    (2)     If a person is convicted of an offence against this Act for the failure to do the act (whether it is the first, or a second or subsequent, offence by the person in relation to the failure) and the failure of the person continues after the day of the conviction, the person commits a further offence in relation to each day during the period—

        (a)     that begins on the day after the conviction; and

        (b)     that ends at the end of the day—

              (i)     a proceeding for the further offence is begun; or

              (ii)     the act is done;

whichever happens first.

Maximum penalty: 0.5 penalty unit.

    (3)     For subsection (2) (b) (i), a proceeding for the further offence is taken to have begun on the day the information for the further offence is laid or on an earlier day stated in the information for that purpose.