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RADIATION SAFETY ACT 1975 - SECT 52

52 .         Offences

        (1)         A person who contravenes any provision of this Act or does not do that which, by or under this Act, he is required or directed to do, commits an offence against this Act.

        (2)         A person who, when required to do so under this Act, fails to furnish within a reasonable time thereafter any information which the Council or an authorised officer has asked for in relation to any matter, or furnishes false or misleading information, commits an offence.

        (3)         Where an offence is committed by a person by reason of his failure to comply with any provision of this Act by or under which he is required or directed to do any thing within a particular period, that offence shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to continue so long as the thing so required or directed to be done by him remains undone, notwithstanding that the particular period has elapsed.

        (4)         A person who commits an offence against this Act for which no penalty is provided elsewhere than in this subsection is liable to a fine of $1 000, and, if the offence is a continuing one, to a further fine of $50 for every day on which the offence has continued.



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