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WASTE MANAGEMENT AND POLLUTION CONTROL ACT - SECT 87

General penalty and continuing offences

87. General penalty and continuing offences

(1) A person who is found guilty of committing an offence against this Act for which no other penalty is prescribed is liable to the penalty that would be payable if the offence were designated to be an environmental offence level 4 within the meaning of the Environmental Offences and Penalties Act .

(2) Where a court is satisfied on finding a person guilty of an offence against a provision of this Act that the person continued to contravene, or to fail to comply with, the provision 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 a further penalty in respect of each day during which the offence continued to be committed after the first day on which it was committed not exceeding -

(a) where the offence is an environmental offence level 1 - $25,000;

(b) where the offence is an environmental offence level 2 - $10,000;

(c) where the offence is an environmental offence level 3 - $5,000; or

(d) where the offence is an environmental offence level 4 - $500.



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