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COMMUNITY PROTECTION (OFFENDER REPORTING) ACT 2004 - SECT 101

101 .         Failure to comply with orders

        (1)         A person subject to a protection order who, without reasonable excuse, fails to comply with the protection order commits a crime.

        Penalty: imprisonment for 5 years.

        Summary conviction penalty: a fine of $12 000 and imprisonment for 2 years.

        (2A)         Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to a failure to comply with an order of the Commissioner under section 94A(1) to undergo assessment or treatment.

        (2)         A police officer who suspects on reasonable grounds that a person has committed an offence under subsection (1) may, without a warrant, arrest the person.

        [Section 101 amended: No. 54 of 2012 s. 34 and 42(2).]



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