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Failure to comply

Cap. 101, s. 65B · Revised Edition 2020

(1) If a sex offender – (a) fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with the notification requirements described in section 65A (1) and (2); or (b) provides any information which he knows to be false, he shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term of five years or both. 67 (2) A person commits an offence under sub-section (1) (a) on the day on which he first fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with section 65A (2) and (3) and continues to commit it throughout any period during which the failure continues but a person shall not be prosecuted more than once in respect of the same failure. (3) Proceedings for an offence under this section may be commenced in any summary court having jurisdiction in any place where the person charged with the offence resides or is found.

Amended by: 12 of 2014

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