Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2016C00441:section:20
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2016C00441
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 20
Character Range: 23721–24744

20  Infringement notice penalty
 (1) The penalty payable under an *infringement notice for a civil contravention is the fine specified in the notice.
 (2) The fine specified is to be at the rate that, under the provisions of the *Compliance Scheme referred to in subsection 49(3), is the appropriate rate of fine for the contravention.
 (3) The *Compliance Scheme may specify different rates of fine to be payable according to the number of civil contraventions a person has committed, or has committed in a specified period, and according to whether a person is a body corporate or an individual. These are the only grounds on which the Compliance Scheme may specify different rates of fine as being appropriate.
 (4) A rate of fine specified in the *Compliance Scheme as being appropriate for a civil contravention by a person must not be more than one‑fifth of the maximum pecuniary penalty that the *Federal Court could order the person to pay under Division 2 in respect of that contravention (see subsection 14(3)).