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Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Act 2005
43BRemedial action
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#### 43B Remedial action
(1) This section applies if the Regulator:
(a) suspects, on reasonable grounds, that a person has engaged, is engaging or is proposing to engage in conduct that constituted, constitutes or would constitute:
(i) an offence against this Act; or
(ii) a contravention of a civil penalty provision; and
(b) is satisfied that it would be in the public interest to give the person a notice under this section.
(2) The Regulator may give the person a written notice requiring the person, within a specified period, to take specified action directed toward either or both of the following:
(a) remedying the conduct;
(b) ensuring that the person does not engage, or continue to engage, in such conduct in the future.
(3) A person contravenes this subsection if the person is subject to a requirement under subsection (2) and the person fails to comply with the requirement.
(4) A person commits an offence of strict liability if the person contravenes subsection (3).
Penalty: 30 penalty units.
> Note: For strict liability, see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code.
(5) A person is liable to a civil penalty if the person contravenes subsection (3).
Civil penalty: 30 penalty units.
(6) A notice under subsection (2) is not a legislative instrument.