Continuing offence

Where the Director of Health Services may under this Act pull down or remove any work begun or executed in contravention of any regulation, or where the beginning or the execution of the work is an offence in respect of which the offender is liable to a penalty, the existence of the work during its continuance in such a form and state as to be in 19 contravention of any regulation shall be deemed to be a continuing offence, but a penalty shall not be incurred in respect thereof after the expiration of one year from the day when the offence was committed or the regulation was broken.