Part 12ENFORCEMENT

PART 12—ENFORCEMENT Division 1—Notices given under this local law 12.1 Offence to fail to comply with notice Whenever the local government gives a notice under this local law requiring a person to do anything, if the person fails to comply with the notice, the person commits an offence. 12.2 Local government may undertake requirements of notice Where a person fails to comply with a notice referred to in clause 12.1, the local government may do the thing specified in the notice and recover from that person, as a debt, the costs incurred in so doing. Division 2—Offences and penalties Subdivision 1—General 12.3 Offences (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 liable, upon conviction, to a penalty 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. Subdivision 2—Infringement notices and modified penalties 12.4 Prescribed offences (1) An offence against a clause specified in Schedule 1 is a prescribed offence for the purposes of section 9.16(1) of the Act. (2) The amount of the modified penalty for a prescribed offence is that specified adjacent to the clause in Schedule 1.