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379: Offence under more than 1 enactment
or “If you break more than one law with one action, you can be charged with only one crime.”
You could also call this:

“Explains how breaking the rules over and over or not stopping something that's not allowed can be seen as one big ongoing mistake.”

If you do something that goes against the Building Act 2004 and keep doing it, or if you do it over and over again, it’s called a continuing offence. This means that as long as you keep breaking the rule, or if you break it multiple times, it’s seen as one ongoing offence instead of separate offences each time.

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Next up: 381: District Court may grant injunctions for certain continuing breaches

or “The local court can tell people to stop or fix unsafe buildings if no one else has done anything about it.”
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Part 5 Miscellaneous provisions
Other offences and criminal proceedings: Proceedings for offences generally

380What constitutes continuing offence

  1. The continued existence of anything, or the intermittent repetition of any action, contrary to any provision of this Act is taken to be a continuing offence.