Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00132:section:4ab
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00132
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 4AB
Character Range: 485696–486608

4AB  Conversion of pecuniary penalties expressed in dollar amounts to penalty units
 (1) A reference in a law of the Commonwealth or in a Territory Ordinance to a pecuniary penalty of D dollars, where D is a number, is taken to be a reference to a pecuniary penalty of P penalty units, where P is:
 (a) if D  100 is a whole number—that whole number; or
 (b) if D  100 is not a whole number—the next highest whole number.
 (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a reference to the maximum amount of a penalty that is not imposed by a court, or by a service tribunal under the Defence Force Discipline Act 1982.
 (3) Subsection (1) does not apply to:
 (a) section 76 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010; or
 (c) a provision of a law of the Commonwealth prescribed for the purposes of this subsection.
 (4) In this section:
penalty includes a fine.
Territory Ordinance has the same meaning as in section 4AA.