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WILDLIFE CONSERVATION ACT 1950 - SECT 26

26 .         Offences

        (1)         Any person who contravenes or who fails to comply with any provisions of this Act or the regulations is guilty of an offence against this Act and is liable, if no other penalty be prescribed, to a maximum penalty of $4 000 in the case of a contravention or failure to comply with a provision of the Act and of $2 000 in the case of a contravention or failure to comply with a provision of a regulation, and any licence issued pursuant to the provisions of this Act and held by him may be cancelled.

        [(2)         deleted]

        (3)         All proceedings in respect of any such offences shall be taken by and in the name of the CEO or by and in the name of any person authorised in that behalf by the CEO.

        [Section 26 amended by No. 45 of 1967 s. 25; No. 28 of 1979 s. 8; No. 112 of 1984 s. 13; No. 58 of 1985 s. 8; No. 57 of 1997 s. 132(23); No. 59 of 2004 s. 141; No. 28 of 2006 s. 221.]



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