81When an infringement notice may be given

81  When an infringement notice may be given

 (1) If an airport environment officer believes on reasonable grounds that a person has committed an offence against:

 (a) Part 6 of the Act; or

 (b) a provision of this instrument that is:

 (i) made for the purposes of section 133 of the Act; and

 (ii) specified in section 82 of this instrument;

the airport environment officer may give to the person an infringement notice for the alleged contravention.

 (2) The infringement notice must be given within 12 months after the day on which the contravention is alleged to have taken place.

 (3) A single infringement notice must relate only to a single contravention of a single provision unless subsection (4) applies.

 (4) An airport environment officer may give a person a single infringement notice relating to multiple contraventions of a single provision if:

 (a) the provision requires the person to do a thing within a particular period or before a particular time; and

 (b) the person fails or refuses to do that thing within that period or before that time; and

 (c) the failure or refusal occurs on more than 1 day; and

 (d) each contravention is constituted by the failure or refusal on one of those days.

Note: For continuing offences, see subsection 4K(2) of the Crimes Act 1914.