Section 57

When any notice under this Ordinance or any rules made hereunder requires any act to be done or work to be executed by any person and the person fails to comply with the requirements of the notice, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall, upon conviction, where no fine is specially provided, be punished with a fine not exceeding six thousand ringgit and to a further fine of one thousand ringgit for each day that the offence continues.

Where an offence under this Ordinance or any rules made hereunder has been committed by a body corporate, any person who at the time of the commission of such offence was a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate or was purporting to act in such capacity shall, as well as such body corporate, be deemed to be guilty of that offence.

Where an offence committed resulted in damage to or the demolition or destruction of a heritage item, the court may order the person to pay, in addition to any penalty that may be imposed under section 58, the costs of the repair, restoration or reconstruction of the heritage item.

General penalty