POWER OF COURT TO ORDER CAUSE OF OFFENCE TO BE REMEDIED OR, IN CERTAIN CASES, FORFEITURE. (Hansard, 18 June 1974)

§ Mr. Harold Walker

I beg to move Amendment No. 90, in page 37, line 22, leave out subsection (3) and insert: '(3) Where a person is ordered under subsection (1) above to remedy any matters, that person shall not be liable under any of the relevant statutory provisions in respect of those matters in so far as they continue during the time fixed by the order or any further time allowed under subsection (2) above'. This is a drafting amendment, designed to make clearer the intended effect of the subsection. As at present drafted, the subsection does not deal adequately with the situation where a person may have committed several offences in connection with matters which he has been ordered by a court to put right. This redrafted subsection ensures that the person convicted is given temporary exemption from continuing liability for all those offences, for the period allowed by the court for the taking of remedial action.