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Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008
193Compliance with direction or requirement
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193 Compliance with direction or requirement
(1) A person must not refuse or fail to comply with a direction given to the person, or a requirement made of the person, in the exercise of a public health risk power under an authorisation given under section 189.
(2) A person is not guilty of an offence against subsection (1) if the person had a reasonable excuse for refusing or failing to comply with the direction or requirement.
Division 2—Improvement notices and prohibition notices