Shire of Northam Cat Local Law 2019
Part 6ENFORCEMENT
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PART 6—ENFORCEMENT 6.1 Offences and Penalties (1) Any person who fails to do anything required or directed to be done under this local law, or who does anything which under this local law that person is prohibited from doing, commits an offence. (2) Any person who commits an offence under this local law is to be liable, upon conviction, to a penalty not less than $1000 and not exceeding $5,000, and if the offence is of a continuing nature, to an additional penalty not exceeding $500 for each day or part of a day during which the offence has continued. 6.2 Modified Penalties and Offence Description (1) An offence against any provision of this local law is a prescribed offence for the purposes of section 62 of the Act. (2) The amount of the modified penalty for a prescribed offence is the amount specified in the fourth column of Schedule 4. 6.3 Form of notices (a) the form of the infringement notice referred to in section 9.13 of the Act is to be in the form of Form 1 of Schedule 1 of the Local Government (Functions and General) Regulations 1996; (b) the form of the notice referred to in section 9.17 of the Act is to be in the form of Form 2 in