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Penalty for breach of agreement by persons employed by applicant
Cap. 40, s. 49 · Revised Edition 2020
A person who, having agreed with any grantee to fulfil or assist in fulfilling any of the conditions of a permission granted under section 46 of this Act, commits any breach of the agreement so far as it relates to the fulfilling or assisting in the fulfilling of any such condition, shall, unless prior to the commencement of the disinterment he gave notice of his intention not to carry out his agreement to the grantee, be liable on the information of a health officer, to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months, or to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars,
Provided that no information shall be laid under this section unless in the opinion of the Director of Health Services the breach of agreement is such that it is expedient in the public interest that an information should be laid, but it shall not be necessary in any proceedings consequent on any such information for the informant to prove such opinion.
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