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BIOSECURITY ACT 2025 - SECT 257

257—Continuing offences

If a person commits an offence which is a continuing offence under this Act—

            (a)         the person is liable to a penalty for each day during which the offence continues of not more than one-tenth of the maximum penalty prescribed for the offence to which the continuing offence relates (the "principal offence ); and

            (b)         if the act or omission giving rise to the offence continues after a conviction for the principal offence, subject to any determination of a court, the person is guilty of a further offence against the principal offence and liable, in addition to the penalty otherwise applicable to the further offence, to a penalty for each day during which the offence continues of not more than one-tenth of the maximum penalty prescribed for the principal offence.



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