Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00189:section:79a:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00189
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 79A (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 1145863–1147511

amount of the fine that is from time to time unpaid.
 (6) Subject to subsection (7), where a person is required to serve periods of imprisonment by virtue of an order or orders under subsection (1) in respect of 2 or more fines, those periods of imprisonment shall be served consecutively.
 (7) Subject to subsection (8), where:
 (a) a person would, but for this subsection, be required by virtue of an order or orders under subsection (1) in respect of 3 or more fines to serve periods of imprisonment in respect of those fines exceeding in the aggregate 3 years; and
 (b) those fines were imposed (whether or not in the same proceedings) for offences constituted by contraventions that occurred within a period of 2 years, being contraventions that appear to the Court to have been of the same nature or a substantially similar nature;
the Court shall, by order, declare that the order or orders shall cease to have effect in respect of those fines after the person has served an aggregate of 3 years' imprisonment in respect of those fines.
 (8) Where subsection (7) would, but for this subsection, apply to a person with respect to offences committed by the person within 2 or more overlapping periods of 2 years, the Court shall make an order under that subsection with respect to one only of those periods, being whichever period would give the person the maximum benefit from the application of that subsection.
 (9) For the purposes of subsection (8), the Court may vary or revoke an order made under subsection (7).
 (11) This section applies only in relation to fines imposed for offences committed after the commencement of this section.