Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2008A00159:clause:1_486za
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2008A00159
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 486ZA
Character Range: 53628–54279

486ZA  Multiple contraventions of civil penalty provisions

 (1) Proceedings against a person for any number of orders to pay pecuniary penalties for contraventions of a civil penalty provision that are founded on the same facts or form, or are part of, a series of contraventions of the same or a similar character, may be joined.

 (2) The Federal Court or the Federal Magistrates Court may make a single order to pay a pecuniary penalty for all the contraventions described in subsection (1), but the penalty must not exceed the sum of the maximum penalties that could be ordered if a separate penalty were ordered for each of the contraventions.