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Electricity Reform Act 2000
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106 Continuing offence
(1) A person found guilty of an offence against a provision of this Act in
respect of a continuing act or omission:
(a) is liable, in addition to the penalty otherwise applicable to the
offence, to a penalty for each day during which the act or
omission continued of not more than one-fifth of the penalty
prescribed for that offence; and
(b) is, if the act or omission continues after the conviction, guilty of
a further offence against the provision and liable, in addition to
the penalty otherwise applicable to the further offence, to a
penalty for each day during which the act or omission
continued after the conviction of not more than one-fifth of the
penalty prescribed for the offence.
(2) If an offence consists of an omission to do something that is
required to be done, the omission will be taken to continue for as
long as the thing required to be done remains undone after the end
of the period for compliance with the requirement.