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RADIATION PROTECTION AND CONTROL ACT 1982 - SECT 48

48—Continuing offences

        (1)         A person convicted of an offence against a provision of this Act in respect of a continuing act or omission—

            (a)         is liable, in addition to the penalty otherwise applicable to the offence, to a penalty for each day during which the act or omission continued of not more than the amount equal to one-tenth of the maximum penalty prescribed for that offence; and

            (b)         is, if the act or omission continues after the person is convicted, guilty of a further offence against the provision and liable, in addition to the penalty otherwise applicable to the further offence, to a penalty for each day during which the act or omission continued after the conviction of not more than the amount equal to one-tenth of the maximum penalty prescribed for the offence.

        (2)         If an offence against a provision of this Act consists of an omission to do something that is required or directed to be done, the omission is, for the purposes of subsection (1), taken to continue for so long as the thing required or directed to be done remains undone after the expiration of the period for compliance with the requirement or direction.



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