Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00189:section:53zj
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00189
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 53ZJ
Character Range: 642488–643835

53ZJ  Civil penalty provisions of gas market instruments
 (1) A gas market instrument may:
 (a) set out at the foot of a provision of the gas market instrument a pecuniary penalty, or penalties, indicated by the words "Civil penalty"; or
 (b) provide that a specified provision of a gas market instrument is a civil penalty provision, or that a person is liable to a civil penalty if the person contravenes the provision;
if the provision is of the kind mentioned in paragraph 79(2)(b) of the Regulatory Powers Act.
Note: Sections 76 to 77 of this Act deal with enforcing the civil penalty provisions.
 (2) If an act or thing is required under a civil penalty provision of a gas market instrument to be done:
 (a) within a particular period; or
 (b) before a particular time;
then the obligation to do that act or thing continues until the act or thing is done (even if the period has expired or the time has passed).
 (3) A person who contravenes a civil penalty provision of a gas market instrument that requires an act or thing to be done:
 (a) within a particular period; or
 (b) before a particular time;
commits a separate contravention of that provision in respect of each day during which the contravention occurs (including the day the relevant order is made under subsection 76(1) or any later day).

Subdivision B—Infringement notices