New South Wales Consolidated Acts

BIOSECURITY ACT 2015 - SECT 138

138 Offence not to comply with biosecurity direction

(1) A person who contravenes a biosecurity direction is guilty of an offence.

(2) An offence against this section is a category 2 offence.

(3) An offence against this section is an executive liability offence.

(4) A person who is guilty of an offence against this section because the person contravenes a requirement of a biosecurity direction 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 a biosecurity direction is revoked.