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WILDLIFE ACT 1975 - SECT 58Q

Offence to refuse or fail to comply with direction to leave area to which exclusion order applies

    (1)     A person to whom a direction under section 58P is given must not refuse or fail to comply with that direction.

Penalty:     For a first offence, 60 penalty units;

For a second or subsequent offence, 120 penalty units.

S. 58Q(2) amended by No. 37/2014 s. 10(Sch. item 184.7).

    (2)     Despite subsection (1), it is not an offence for a person to refuse or fail to comply with a direction given under section 58P if the authorised officer or police officer did not comply with section 58P(3).

    (3)     Section 72 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2009 applies in the circumstances referred to in subsection (2).

    (4)     Nothing in this section affects the powers of the court, or of the Supreme Court, in relation to contempt of court.

Division 4—General

S. 58R inserted by No. 11/2014 s. 23, amended by Nos 24/2014 s. 49, 37/2014 s. 10(Sch. item 184.8(a)).



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