Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025A00016:clause:4_302aqa
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025A00016
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 4 cl 302AQA
Character Range: 208017–208805

302AQA  Exception—acceptable expenditure action
  A civil penalty provision in Subdivision C, D, E or F does not apply to a person, in relation to the excess amount of particular expenditure within the meaning of the provision, if:
 (a) at the time the particular expenditure was incurred, the person did not know, and could not reasonably have been expected to know, that the total expenditure concerned exceeded the cap concerned; and
 (b) before the end of the period of 6 weeks starting on the day the person first became aware of the matter, acceptable expenditure action is taken in relation to the excess amount.
Note: A person who wishes to rely on this section bears an evidential burden in relation to the matters in this section (see section 96 of the Regulatory Powers Act).