(1)  A permit, licence, or pipeline licence may be wholly cancelled or partly cancelled, and a lease may be wholly cancelled, on the ground that the registered holder of the permit, lease, licence, or pipeline licence has not complied with a provision of this Part or of the regulations notwithstanding that he has been convicted of an offence by reason of his failure to comply with the provision.

(2)  A person who was the registered holder of a permit, lease, licence, or pipeline licence that has been wholly cancelled, or is the registered holder of a permit, licence, or pipeline licence that has been partly cancelled, on the ground that he has not complied with a provision of this Part or of the regulations may be convicted of an offence by reason of his failure to comply with the provision, notwithstanding that the permit, lease, licence, or pipeline licence has been so cancelled.

(3)  A permit, licence, or pipeline licence may be wholly cancelled or partly cancelled, and a lease may be wholly cancelled, on the ground that the registered holder of the permit, lease, licence, or pipeline licence has not paid an amount payable by him under this Act within a period of 3 months after the day on which the amount became payable, notwithstanding that judgment for the amount may have been obtained or that the amount, or any part of the amount, may have been paid or recovered.

(4)  A person who –

(a) was the registered holder of a permit, lease, licence, or pipeline licence that has been wholly cancelled; or

(b) is the registered holder of a permit, licence, or pipeline licence that has been partly cancelled –

on the ground that he has not paid an amount payable by him under this Act within a period of 3 months after the day on which the amount became payable continues to be liable to pay that amount, together with any additional amount payable by reason of late payment of that amount, notwithstanding that the permit, lease, licence, or pipeline licence may have been so cancelled.