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504 Offence not to comply with compliance notice
(1) A mental health and wellbeing service provider must comply with a compliance notice served on it under section 502(1).
Penalty: In the case of a body corporate, 1200 penalty units;
In any other case, 240 penalty units.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply if—
(a) the period within which an application for review under section 503(1) may be made has not expired; or
(b) an application for review has been made under section 503(1) and VCAT affirms the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission's decision to serve a compliance notice.
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