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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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