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Animal Welfare Act 1993
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48D Continuing offences
[Section 48D Inserted by No. 18 of 2015, s. 24, Applied:24 Jun 2015]
(1) A person who commits a continuing offence against this Act is liable, in addition to the penalty otherwise prescribed, to a further penalty, not exceeding one-fifth of the maximum penalty otherwise prescribed, for each day during which the offence continues.
(2) For the purposes of this section, an obligation to do an act continues until the act is done, notwithstanding that any period within which, or time before which, the act is required to be done has ended or passed.