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BIOSECURITY ACT 2015 - SECT 116
Offence of failing to comply with requirement made by authorised officer
116 Offence of failing to comply with requirement made by authorised officer
(1) A person who contravenes a requirement made of the person by an authorised
officer exercising a power conferred by this Part is guilty of an offence.
(2) An offence against this section is a category 2 offence.
(3) A person is
not guilty of an offence of failing to comply with a requirement to furnish
records or information or to answer a question unless the person was warned on
that occasion that a failure to comply is an offence.
(4) A person who is
guilty of an offence against this section because the person contravenes a
requirement made by an authorised officer to do or refrain from doing
something-- (a) continues, until the requirement is complied with and despite
the fact that any specified period or time for compliance has expired or
passed, to be liable to comply with the requirement, and
(b) is guilty of a
continuing offence for each day the contravention continues.
(5) Subsection
(4) does not apply to the extent that a requirement of an authorised officer
is revoked.
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