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Environment Protection Act 1997
139Causing environmental harm or likely environmental
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139 Causing environmental harm or likely environmental
harm
causing environmental harm or likely environmental harm.
Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units, imprisonment for 6 months or
environmental harm or likely environmental harm.
Maximum penalty: 75 penalty units.
(3) A person must not pollute the environment causing environmental
harm or likely environmental harm.
(5) If in a proceeding for an offence against subsection (1) or (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