Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00189:clause:2_199
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00189
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 2 cl 199
Character Range: 2684413–2685985

199  Compliance with recall orders
 (1) A person commits an offence if:
 (a) a recall notice for consumer goods is in force; and
 (b) the notice requires the person (other than the regulator) to do one or more things; and
 (c) the person refuses or fails to comply with the notice.
 (2) A person commits an offence if:
 (a) a recall notice for consumer goods is in force; and
 (b) the person, in trade or commerce:
 (i) if the notice identifies a defect in, or a dangerous characteristic of, the consumer goods—supplies consumer goods of the kind to which the notice relates which contain that defect or have that characteristic; or
 (ii) in any other case—supplies consumer goods of the kind to which the notice relates.
 (3) Subsections (1) and (2) are offences of strict liability.

Penalty
 (4) An offence against subsection (1) or (2) committed by a body corporate is punishable on conviction by a fine of not more than the greater of the following:
 (a) $50,000,000;
 (b) if the court can determine the value of the benefit that the body corporate, and any body corporate related to the body corporate, have obtained directly or indirectly and that is reasonably attributable to the commission of the offence—3 times the value of that benefit;
 (c) if the court cannot determine the value of that benefit—30% of the body corporate's adjusted turnover during the breach turnover period for the offence.
 (5) An offence against subsection (1) or (2) committed by a person other than a body corporate is punishable on conviction by a fine of not more than $2,500,000.