Disobedience to Act or to notice

Where under this Act or a notice issued thereunder the public or any person is required to do or to refrain from doing anything, a person who fails to comply with such requisition shall, if such failure is not an offence punishable under any other section, be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding Rs. 500 for every such failure, and in the case of a continuing breach, to a further fine which may extend to Rs. 5 for every day after the date of the last conviction during which the offender is proved to have persisted in the breach : Provided that when the notice fixes a time within which a certain act is to be done, and no time is specified in this Act, it shall rest with the Magistrate to determine whether the time so fixed was a reasonable time within the meaning of this Act.