Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) Where a copy of a
Stop Work Order —
(a) is
affixed in a prominent position on the place to which it relates; or
(b) is
served on a person carrying out, or causing to be carried out, at that place
any works or other activity,
a person who carries
out, or authorises, causes or permits to be carried out, in relation to that
place any works or activity of a kind prohibited by that Order commits an
offence.
Penalty: $10 000 and imprisonment for
2 years.
Daily penalty: $1 000.
(2) A person who in,
or in relation to, a place to which a Conservation Order
applies —
(a)
damages or despoils that place or any part of, or thing in, that place;
(b)
removes any thing; or
(c)
contravenes any prohibition contained in the Order,
whereby the cultural
heritage characteristics of that place are detrimentally affected, or who
authorises, causes or permits any other person to do any of those things,
commits an offence.
Penalty: $10 000 and imprisonment for
2 years.
Daily penalty: $1 000.
(3) Where an act or
omission is an offence against subsection (1) or subsection (2) and
also an offence against the other of those subsections or some other provision
of this Act, a person convicted under that subsection is not liable to be
proceeded against under this Act by virtue of that other provision in respect
of a contravention of the same or a substantially similar nature occurring at
or about the same time in relation to the same place.