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78 Obstruction an offence (1) A person who after service of a notice under section 75(3) wilfully does any act or thing calculated to prevent the Authority from exercising any power conferred by section 75 is guilty of an offence. (2) The doing of an act or thing in contravention of this section does not prevent the Authority from exercising any power which it could lawfully have exercised if that act or thing had not been done.

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