INTERPRETATION ACT 1984 - SECT 71

INTERPRETATION ACT 1984 - SECT 71

71 .         Continuing offences

        (1)         Where —

            (a)         by or under a written law an act or thing is required or directed to be done within a particular period or before a particular time; and

            (b)         failure to do that act or thing within the period or before the time referred to in paragraph (a) constitutes an offence; and

            (c)         that act or thing is not done within the period or before the time referred to in paragraph (a),

                the following provisions have effect —

            (d)         the obligation to do that act or thing continues, notwithstanding that that period has expired or that time has passed, until that act or thing is done; and

            (e)         where a person is convicted of an offence that, by virtue of paragraph (d), is constituted by failure to do that act or thing after the expiration of that period or after that time, as the case may be, that person is guilty of a separate and further offence in respect of each day after the day of the conviction during which the failure to do that act or thing continues; and

            (f)         unless otherwise provided, the penalty applicable to each separate and further offence is $50.

        (2)         Where —

            (a)         by or under a written law an act or thing is required or directed to be done but no period within which or time by which that act or thing is to be done is specified; and

            (b)         failure to do that act or thing constitutes an offence; and

            (c)         a person is convicted of an offence in respect of a failure to do that act or thing,

                that person is guilty of a separate and further offence in respect of each day after the day of the conviction during which the failure to do that act or thing continues and, unless otherwise provided, the penalty applicable to each such separate and further offence is $50.