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BUSINESS NAMES ACT 1996 - SECT 21

21—General offences and penalties

        (1)         If a person contravenes or fails to comply with a provision of this Act for which no penalty is specifically provided, the person is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: $1 250.

Expiation Fee: $210.

        (2)         If a person is convicted of an offence against this Act and after that conviction the act or omission of the person that constituted the offence continues, the person is guilty of a further offence and liable to an additional penalty for each day on which the act or omission continues of an amount not exceeding one-tenth of the maximum penalty for the offence of which the person was convicted.

        (3)         For the purposes of subsection (2), an obligation to do something is to be regarded as continuing until the act is done despite the fact that any period within which, or time before which, the act is required to be done has expired or passed.



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