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(b) ynnecessary, taking into consideration the unlikelihood of significant
material damage to any person had the government not acted.under this
section, , .
it may reduce or extinguish the amount of the judgment that it would otherwise have
ordered be entered against the person against whom the action has been brought.
(9) Money recovered pursuant to subsection (7) shall be paid into the Waste
Management Trust Fund and may be expended for the purposes of that fund.
1987-51-13,

Offences and penalties

34. (1) A person who contravenes section 6 or 7 commits an offence and is liable
to a penalty not exceeding $2 000. |

(2) A person who contravenes section 4 (3), 5 (1) or (2), 10 (5) or section 31 (1)
commits an offence and is liable to a penalty not exceeding $200 000. |

(3) A person who contravenes section 3 (1.1), (1.2) or (2), 3.1 (1) or (2), 3.2 or
section 4 (1) or (4) commits an offence and is liable to a penalty not exceeding
$1 000 000. .

(4) A person who inserts in a manifest required by section 5 information that he
knows to be untrue or misleading information commits an offence and is liable to a
penalty not exceeding $200 000.

. (4.1) A person who obstructs or resists an officer who is exercising duties under
section 21.1 or a police constable who is exercising duties under section 21. Lor 21.2 0r
fails to comply with a requirement of a police constable pursuant to those sections
commits an offence and is liable to a penalty not exceeding $200 000.

(5) A person who, holding a permit or approval issued to him under this Act to
introduce waste into the environment, introduces waste into the environment without
having complied with the requirements of the permit or approval, commits an offence and
is liable to a penalty not exceeding $1 000 000.

(6) A person who, holding a permit or approval issued to him under this Act to store
a special waste, stores the special waste without having complied with the requirements
of the permit or approval commits an offence and is liable to a penalty not exceeding

$1 000 000. a
(7) A person who contravenes section 5 (3) commits an offence and is liable,
(a) where the contravention arises from a failure to comply with the require-
ment in section 5 (3) (a) or (b), to a.penalty not exceeding $200 000, or
(b) where the contravention arises from a failure to,comply with the require-
"ment in section 5 (3) (c), to a penalty not exceeding $300 000.
(8) A person who contravenes an order or requirement (other than an order under
section 4 (3)) given, made or imposed under this Act by a sewage control manager, a
manager, a district director, the director, the minister.or the appeal board commits an
offence and is liable to a penalty not exceeding $300 000, but'an order or requirement is
not contravened unless it Co
(a) was given in writing, and | |
(b). specified a reasonable period of time for compliance and that period has
expired.
(9) A municipality that contravenes a waste management plan approved by the |
minister commits an offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding $300 000.
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