New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1993 - SECT 652

652 Acting in civic office while subject to disqualification

(1) A person who acts in a civic office while disqualified from holding the office is guilty of an offence.

: Maximum penalty--20 penalty units.

(2) If the court is satisfied that an offence under this section was of a trifling character comprising acts done in good faith while in ignorance of the fact that the result would be disqualification, the court may--

(a) dismiss the case, or

(b) proceed to conviction and declare that section 276(3) does not apply to the conviction or applies only to a specified extent.

(3) A declaration by a court under this section as to the application of section 276(3) has effect according to its tenor.