Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00392:clause:1_73
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00392
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 73
Character Range: 93307–94243

73  Contravention of improvement notice
 (1) A person who is subject to an improvement notice must not engage in conduct that results in a contravention of a requirement of the improvement notice.
Offence provision.
 (2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the person has a reasonable excuse.
 (3) The person charged bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in subsection (2).
 (4) In proceedings for an offence of engaging in conduct that results in a contravention of a requirement of an improvement notice, 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.
 {(5) An offence under subsection (1) is an offence of strict liability.}