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Reserves Act 1977

Miscellaneous provisions - Offences

104: Penalty for breach of bylaws

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"Breaking reserve rules can cost you up to $5,000 and more if you keep breaking them"

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If you break a bylaw under the Reserves Act 1977, you commit an offence. You can be fined up to $5,000 if you are convicted. If you keep breaking the bylaw, you can be fined an extra $500 for each day you continue to break it.

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Part 5Miscellaneous provisions
Offences

104Penalty for breach of bylaws

  1. Every person who commits a breach of any bylaw under this Act commits an offence, and is liable on conviction to—

  2. a fine not exceeding $5,000; and
    1. where the offence is a continuing one, a further fine not exceeding $500 for every day on which the offence continues.

      Notes
      • Section 104: replaced, on , by section 16 of the Conservation (Natural Heritage Protection) Act 2013 (2013 No 89).