Section 78 — Health and Safety at Work Act 2015: Offence relating to breach of provisional improvement notice

78 Offence relating to breach of provisional improvement notice (1) This section applies if a provisional improvement notice has been issued to a person and an inspector has not been required under section 79 to review the notice. (2) The person must comply with the provisional improvement notice within the time specified in the notice by remedying the contravention or avoiding any likely contravention (as the case may be). (3) For the purposes of subsection (2), the person may comply with the notice in a different way from that directed by the health and safety representative as long as the person substantially complies with the requirement to remedy the contravention or avoid any likely contravention. (4) A person who contravenes subsection (2) commits an offence and is liable on conviction,— (a) for an individual, to a fine not exceeding $50,000: (b) for any other person, to a fine not exceeding $250,000. Compare: Model Work Health and Safety Act (Aust) s 99