Health Local Law 2016
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Subdivision 1—General 6.4 Offences and penalties (1) A person who— (a) fails to do anything required or directed to be done under this local law; (b) fails to comply with the requirements of a notice issued under this local law by an authorised person; or (c) does anything which under this local law that person is prohibited from doing, commits an offence. (2) Where, under this local law, an act is required to be done or forbidden to be done in relation to any land or premises, the owner or occupier of the land or premises has the duty of causing to be done the act so required to be done, or of preventing from being done the act forbidden to be done. (3) A person who commits an offence under this local law is liable to a maximum penalty of $5,000 and where the offence is of a continuing nature a maximum daily penalty of $500 in respect of each day or part of a day during which the offence has continued.