Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00673:section:61bq
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00673
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 61BQ
Character Range: 117080–118248

61BQ  When an infringement notice may be given
 (1) If the Authority has reasonable grounds to believe that a person has contravened a civil penalty provision, the Authority may give to the person an infringement notice for the alleged contravention.
 (2) The infringement notice must be given within 12 months after the day the contravention is alleged to have taken place.
 (3) A single infringement notice must relate only to a single contravention of a single civil penalty provision unless subsection (4) applies.
 (4) The Authority may give a person a single infringement notice relating to multiple contraventions of a single provision if:
 (a) the provision requires the person to do a thing within a particular period or before a particular time; and
 (b) the person fails or refuses to do that thing within that period or before that time; and
 (c) the failure or refusal occurs on more than one day; and
 (d) each contravention is constituted by the failure or refusal on one of those days.
Note: For continuing offences, see subsection 4K(2) of the Crimes Act 1914. For continuing contraventions of civil penalty provisions, see section 61BP of this Act.