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ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ACT 2017 - SECT 286

Non-compliance with improvement notice

    (1)     Subject to section 288, a person to whom an improvement notice is issued must not, without reasonable excuse, fail to comply with that notice.

Penalty:     In the case of a natural person, 500 penalty units;

    In the case of a body corporate, 2500 penalty units.

Note

Section 314 provides that subsection (1) is a civil penalty provision. The penalty for contravention of this civil penalty provision is set out in the table in section 314.

    (2)     An offence under subsection (1) is an indictable offence.

Note

This offence may be heard and determined summarily (see  section 28 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2009 ).

S. 287 inserted by No. 39/2018 s. 7 (as amended by Nos 27/2019 ss 1230, 3/2020 ss 4244, 47/2020 s. 26).



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