Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00195:section:117
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00195
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 117
Character Range: 228699–229370

117  Scale of damages for breach of performance standards
 (1) The ACMA may, by legislative instrument, specify a scale of damages for contraventions of standards under section 115.
 (2) The scale must:
 (a) specify categories of contraventions; and
 (b) specify a dollar amount as the amount of damages payable for contraventions covered by each of those categories.
 (3) A dollar amount specified in accordance with paragraph (2)(b) must not exceed $25,000.
 (4) A category may be specified by reference to contraventions that continue over a specified number of days.
 (5) Subsection (4) does not, by implication, limit the ways in which a category may be specified.