Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2018N00129:front:0:p28
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2018N00129
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than the giving of an infringement notice and no particular form is prescribed, it will be sufficient that the notice be in writing giving adequate details to enable the owner, occupier or other person to whom the notice is issued to know the offence committed and the measures required to be taken or conditions with which compliance is required, as the case may be.
6.3                     When local government may undertake work required by notice
(1)            This clause applies only in respect of a notice issued under clauses 3.7(2), 3.8(2), 3.11(1) and 4.3(1) of this local law.
(2)            Where a person fails to comply with a notice referred to in clause 6.1 the local government may, subject to compliance with the requirements of subdivision 2 of Division 3 of Part 3 and subdivision 3 of Division 3 of Part 3 of the Act, do anything that it considers necessary to achieve, so far as is practicable, the purpose for which the notice was given.
(3)            The local government may recover the cost of anything it does under subclause (2) as a debt due from the person who failed to comply with the notice.
    Division 2 - Offences and penalties
Subdivision 1 - General
6.4                     Offences and penalties
(1)            A person who;
(a)          fails to do anything required or directed to be done under this local law;
(b)          fails to comply with the requirements of a notice issued under this local law by an authorised person; or
(c)          does anything which under this local law that person is prohibited from doing;
commits an offence.
(2)            Where, under this local law, an act is required to be done or forbidden to be done in relation to any land or premises, the owner or occupier of the land or premises has the duty of causing to be done the act so required to be done, or of preventing from being done the act forbidden to be done.
(3)            A person who commits an offence under this local law is liable to a maximum penalty of $5,000 and a maximum daily penalty of $500 in respect of each day or part of a day during which the offence has continued.

Subdivision 2 - Infringement notices and modified penalties
6.5                     Prescribed offences
(1)            An offence against a clause specified in Schedule 1 is a prescribed offence for the purposes of the Local Government Act 1995 (WA) (CI).
(2)            The amount of the modified penalty for a prescribed offence is that specified adjacent to the clause in Schedule 1.
(3)            An authorised person should be satisfied that;
(a)          commission of the prescribed offence is a relatively minor matter; and
(b)          only straightforward issues of law and fact