# Water (Scotland) Act 1980, Section 97: Continuing offences and penalties.


Where provision is made by or under this Act or any local enactment incorporating any provisions of Schedule 4 for the imposition of a daily penalty in respect of a continuing offence, the court by which a person is convicted may fix a reasonable period from the date of the conviction for compliance by that person with any directions given by the court, and, where the court has fixed such a period, the daily penalty shall not be recoverable in respect of any day before the expiration thereof.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/45/section/97 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/water-scotland-act-1980/section-97
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