New South Wales Consolidated Acts

BIOSECURITY ACT 2015 - SECT 340

340 Contravention of permit

(1) A person who contravenes a condition of an individual permit is guilty of an offence.

(2) A person who engages in any dealing or other conduct under the purported authority of a group permit and who contravenes a condition of the permit is guilty of an offence.

(3) An offence against subsection (1) or (2) is a category 1 offence if the contravention is intentional or reckless.

(4) In any other case, the offence is a category 2 offence.

(5) A category 1 offence against this section is an executive liability offence.

(6) A person who is guilty of a category 1 offence or category 2 offence against this section because the person contravenes a requirement of a condition of a permit 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 (of the same category) for each day the contravention continues.

(7) Subsection (6) does not apply to the extent that a requirement of a condition is revoked.