NATIONAL CONSUMER CREDIT PROTECTION ACT 2009 - SECT 175A Continuing contraventions of civil penalty provisions

NATIONAL CONSUMER CREDIT PROTECTION ACT 2009 - SECT 175A

  (1)   If an act or thing is required under a civil penalty provision to be done:

  (a)   within a particular period; or

  (b)   before a particular time;

then the obligation to do that act or thing continues until the act or thing is done (even if the period has expired or the time has passed).

  (2)   A person who contravenes a civil penalty provision that requires an act or thing to be done:

  (a)   within a particular period; or

  (b)   before a particular time;

commits a separate contravention of that provision in respect of each day during which the contravention occurs (including the day the relevant pecuniary penalty order is made or any later day).