Residential Apartment Buildings (Compliance and Enforcement Powers) Act 2020
56BAdditional orders
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56B Additional orders
56B Additional orders
(1) If a person is convicted by a court of failing to comply with an order or direction under this Act or the regulations, the court may order the person to comply with the order or direction.
(2) The court may, in the order, fix a period for compliance and impose other requirements the court considers necessary or expedient for enforcement of the order.
(3) A person who fails to comply with an order under this section is guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty—
(a) for a body corporate—3,000 penalty units and in addition, in the case of a continuing offence, 300 penalty units for each day the offence continues, or
(b) otherwise—1,000 penalty units and in addition, in the case of a continuing offence, 100 penalty units for each day the offence continues.
(4) If an order is made under this section, conduct to which the order relates is only to be prosecuted under this section and not by way of a continuing offence under another section of this Act.
s 56B: Ins 2021 No 21, Sch 2[7].