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Environment Protection Act 1997
137Causing serious environmental harm or likely serious
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137 Causing serious environmental harm or likely serious
environmental harm
causing serious environmental harm or likely serious environmental
Maximum penalty: 2 000 penalty units, imprisonment for 5 years or
serious environmental harm or likely serious environmental harm.
Maximum penalty: 1 500 penalty units, imprisonment for 3 years or
(3) A person must not pollute the environment causing serious
environmental harm or likely serious environmental harm.
Maximum penalty: 1 000 penalty units.
(5) If in a proceeding for an offence against subsection (1) or
subsection (2), the court is not satisfied that the defendant is guilty of
the offence charged but is satisfied that the defendant is guilty of an
offence against subsection (3), the court may find the defendant guilty
of the latter offence.