s 56 Compliance with security directives and notices under this Part
56.—(1) Any person who is issued a security directive under this Part must comply with every direction in that security directive. (2) Any person who is issued a notice under section 54(5) must comply with that notice. (3) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) —(a) in the case of a security directive under section 55, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $50,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $2,500 for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction; and (b) in the case of any other security directive under this Part, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $100,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $2,500 for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction. (4) Any person who contravenes subsection (2) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $100,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $2,500 for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction. (5) In this section —(a) a reference to the authority of a protected area or a protected place who is issued a security directive includes a reference to a person who becomes the authority of that protected area or that protected place after that security directive is issued; (b) a reference to the responsible person of a special development or a special infrastructure who is issued a security directive or a notice includes a reference to a person who becomes the responsible person of that special development or that special infrastructure after that security directive or that notice is issued; and (c) a reference to the owner of any premises who is issued a security directive includes a reference to a person who becomes the owner of that premises after that security directive is issued.