LIQUOR CONTROL ACT 1988 - SECT 158
LIQUOR CONTROL ACT 1988 - SECT 158
158 . Failing to comply with licensing authority’s requirements etc., offence
(1) A person who
—
(a)
fails duly to lodge a return with, or to provide any information to or to
comply with any requirement of, the licensing authority as and when required
under this Act; or
(b)
without just cause shown fails duly to attend and give evidence when required
by the licensing authority or to answer truly and fully any questions put, or
to produce any records required by the Director,
commits an offence.
Penalty: a fine of $10 000.
(2) Any person who,
after conviction for an offence against subsection (1), continues to fail to
comply with the requirements in respect of which the person was convicted,
commits an offence and is punishable as provided in section 157.
(3) Where an offence
against this section arises under subsection (1)(a) by reason of the failure
of a person to do anything within a particular period, the offence shall, for
the purposes of subsection (2), be deemed to continue for as long as the thing
remains undone, notwithstanding that that period has elapsed.
[Section 158 amended: No. 73 of 2006 s. 110; No.
56 of 2010 s. 69.]