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Public and Environmental Health Act 2011
140Offences – before and after commencement
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140 Offences – before and after commencement
(1) Section 119, as amended by the Statute Law Amendment
(Directors' Liability) Act 2015, (the new section) applies in relation
to a relevant offence committed by a body corporate after the
commencement of Part 2, Division 32 of that Act (the
commencement) only if:
(a) all the conduct constituting the relevant offence occurred after
the commencement; and
(b) all the conduct of the executive officer constituting the offence
against the new section occurred after the commencement.
(2) Section 119, as in force before the commencement:
(a) continues to apply in relation to offences committed by a body
corporate before the commencement; and
(b) applies in relation to relevant offences committed by a body
corporate after the commencement to which, as a result of
subsection (1), the new section does not apply.
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