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PLANNING ACT - SECT 79

Default penalty may be imposed for continuing offences

79. Default penalty may be imposed for continuing offences

If:

(a) in this Act the expression default penalty appears in or at the foot of a section or subsection; and

(b) a court is satisfied on finding a person guilty of an offence against the section or subsection that the person continued to contravene, or to fail to comply with, the section after the date when he or she was notified of the alleged offence,

the Court may, in addition to the penalty, if any, specified for the offence, impose the default penalty in respect of each day during which the offence continued to be committed after the first day on which it was committed.



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