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PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 1997 - SECT 24

Alteration of premises and appliances—offence

    (1)     A person who carries on a licensable public health risk activity must not, except in accordance with an approval under section 25, make an activity premises alteration or a procedure appliance alteration if the alteration would increase the public health risk associated with the activity.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

    (2)     For subsection (1), an activity premises alteration or a procedure appliance alteration is taken to increase the public health risk associated with a public health risk activity if there are reasonable grounds for the person who carries on the activity to believe that the alteration would increase the risk (irrespective of the person's actual belief).



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