NORTHERN TERRITORY ABORIGINAL SACRED SITES ACT 1989 - SECT 37 Contravention of sites avoidance conditions

NORTHERN TERRITORY ABORIGINAL SACRED SITES ACT 1989 - SECT 37

A person who contravenes or fails to comply with a condition of an Authority Certificate or a Minister's Certificate relating to work which may be done on or use that may be made of land and by so doing causes damage to a sacred site or distress to a custodian of a sacred site, is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty:     In the case of a natural person – 200 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months.

    In the case of a body corporate – 1 000 penalty units.