Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2016C00700:clause:1_101
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2016C00700
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 101
Character Range: 118092–119294

101  Contravention of improvement notice
 (1) A person on whom an improvement notice has been served must comply with the notice unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
Penalty: In the case of a natural person:
Penalty: In the case of a body corporate:
 (2) In proceedings against a person for an offence of engaging in conduct that results in a contravention of a requirement of an improvement notice served on a ground stated in section 100(1)(a) or (b), it is a defence if the person charged establishes that—
 (a) the alleged contravention or likely contravention; or
 (b) the matters or activities occasioning the alleged contravention or likely contravention—
were remedied within the period specified in the notice, though by a method different from that specified in the improvement notice.
 (3) In proceedings for an offence against a person of engaging in conduct that results in a contravention of a requirement of an improvement notice on the ground stated in section 100(1)(c), it is a defence if the person charged establishes that the threat to safety was removed within the period specified in the notice, though by a method different from that specified in the improvement notice.