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POINT TO POINT TRANSPORT (TAXIS AND HIRE VEHICLES) ACT 2016 - SECT 16 Safety duty offence--Category 1

POINT TO POINT TRANSPORT (TAXIS AND HIRE VEHICLES) ACT 2016 - SECT 16

Safety duty offence--Category 1

16 Safety duty offence--Category 1

(1) A person commits a Category 1 offence if--
(a) the person has a safety duty, and
(b) the person, without reasonable excuse, engages in conduct that exposes an individual to whom that duty is owed to a risk of death or serious injury or illness, and
(c) the person is reckless as to the risk of an individual death or serious injury or illness.
: Maximum penalty--
(a) in the case of an individual--$300,000 or 2 years imprisonment, or both, or
(b) in the case of a body corporate--$3,000,000.
(2) The prosecution bears the burden of proving that the conduct was engaged in without reasonable excuse.