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Infrastructure Protection Act 2017 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5 · Security Directives

56. Compliance with security directives and notices under this Part

(1)

Any person who is issued a security directive under this Part must comply with every direction in that security directive.

(2)

Any person who is issued a notice under section 54(5) must comply with that notice.

(3)

Any person who contravenes subsection (1) —

(a)

in the case of a security directive under section 55, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $50,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $2,500 for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction; and

(b)

in the case of any other security directive under this Part, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $100,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $2,500 for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction.

(4)

Any person who contravenes subsection (2) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $100,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $2,500 for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction.

(5)

In this section —

(a)

a reference to the authority of a protected area or a protected place who is issued a security directive includes a reference to a person who becomes the authority of that protected area or that protected place after that security directive is issued;

(b)

a reference to the responsible person of a special development or a special infrastructure who is issued a security directive or a notice includes a reference to a person who becomes the responsible person of that special development or that special infrastructure after that security directive or that notice is issued; and

(c)

a reference to the owner of any premises who is issued a security directive includes a reference to a person who becomes the owner of that premises after that security directive is issued.