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Environment Conservation Act, 1989 (Act No. 73 of 1989)

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Waste Tyre Regulations, 2009

Part 7 : General

17. Offences and penalties

 

1) A person is guilty of an offence if that person contravenes or fails to comply with-
a) a provision of regulations 4, 6, 7, 8, 11(2) and (5),12(1) and (2),15(2), (4) and (5),16(1), (2). (3), (4), (6) and (7); or
b) an integrated industry waste tyre management plan; or

 

2) A person is liable on conviction of an offence in terms of sub-regulation (1) to a fine not exceeding R100 000 or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding 10 years or to both such fine and such imprisonment, and to a fine not exceeding three times the commercial value of anything in respect of which the offence was committed.

 

3) A person convicted of an offence in terms of these Regulations and who after such conviction persists in the act or omission which constituted such offence, shall be guilty of a continuing contravention and be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding R250 or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding 20 days or to both such fine and such imprisonment in respect of every day such offence continues.