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Crown Minerals Act 1991

Permits, access to land, and other matters - Offences and miscellaneous - Offences and legal proceedings

101: Penalties

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"What happens if you break the Crown Minerals Act rules: fines and punishments"

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If you break the law under section 100(1) of the Crown Minerals Act, you can go to prison for up to 2 years or get a fine of up to $400,000. If you keep breaking the law, you can get an extra fine of up to $20,000 for each day you break the law. You can also get a fine or prison time if you break other parts of the law.

If you break the law under section 100(2) of the Crown Minerals Act, you can get a fine of up to $20,000. If you keep breaking the law, you can get an extra fine of up to $2,000 for each day you break the law. There are different fines for breaking different parts of the law, like up to $800,000 for breaking section 100(2A) or up to $200,000 for breaking section 100(2B)(a).

If you break the law under section 100(3) of the Crown Minerals Act, you can get a fine of up to $3,000. If you break section 100(3A), you can get a fine of up to $800,000. A court can also give you community work as a punishment, and they follow the rules in Part 2 of the Sentencing Act 2002.

If you are found guilty of breaking section 77 of the Crown Minerals Act, the court can cancel your right to access something or add more conditions to it. If you keep doing something that is against the law, it is considered a continuing offence. This means you can get in trouble for each day you break the law.

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Offences and miscellaneous: Offences and legal proceedings

101Penalties

  1. Every person who commits an offence against section 100(1) is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or a fine not exceeding $400,000, and, if the offence is a continuing one, to a further fine not exceeding $20,000 for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues.

  2. Every person who commits an offence against section 100(2) is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $20,000, and, if the offence is a continuing one, to a further fine not exceeding $2,000 for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues.

  3. Every person who commits an offence against section 100(2A) is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $800,000.

  4. Every person who commits an offence against section 100(2B) is liable on conviction to the following:

  5. in the case of section 100(2B)(a), a fine not exceeding $200,000:
    1. in the case of section 100(2B)(b), a fine not exceeding $50,000.

      1. Every person who commits an offence against section 100(3) is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $3,000.

      2. Every person who commits an offence against section 100(3A) is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $800,000.

      3. A court may sentence any person who commits an offence against this Act to a sentence of community work, and the provisions of Part 2 of the Sentencing Act 2002, with all necessary modifications, apply accordingly.

      4. Where a person is convicted of an offence against section 77, the court may, instead of, or in addition to, imposing a fine, cancel or revoke the right of access or impose additional conditions on the right where it considers it is appropriate to do so in the circumstances.

      5. The continued existence of anything, or the intermittent repetition of any actions, contrary to any provision of this Act shall be deemed to be a continuing offence.

      Notes
      • Section 101(1): amended, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).
      • Section 101(1): amended, on , by section 54(1)(a) of the Crown Minerals Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 14).
      • Section 101(1): amended, on , by section 54(1)(b) of the Crown Minerals Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 14).
      • Section 101(2): amended, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).
      • Section 101(2): amended, on , by section 54(2)(a) of the Crown Minerals Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 14).
      • Section 101(2): amended, on , by section 54(2)(b) of the Crown Minerals Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 14).
      • Section 101(2A): replaced, on , by section 63 of the Crown Minerals Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 40).
      • Section 101(2B): inserted, on , by section 63 of the Crown Minerals Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 40).
      • Section 101(3): amended, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).
      • Section 101(3): amended, on , by section 54(3) of the Crown Minerals Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 14).
      • Section 101(3A): inserted, on , by section 54(4) of the Crown Minerals Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 14).
      • Section 101(3A): amended, on , by regulation 3(1) of the Criminal Procedure (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2013 (SR 2013/409).
      • Section 101(4): substituted, on , by section 186 of the Sentencing Act 2002 (2002 No 9).