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Infringement notices

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Part 6Environmental management
Division 4Infringement notices

138 Infringement notices

(1)

The regulations may make provision enabling a person who is alleged to have committed an offence against:

(a)

this Part; or

(b)

regulations made for the purposes of section 133;

to pay a penalty to the Commonwealth as an alternative to prosecution.

(2)

The penalty must equal one‑fifth of the maximum fine that a court could impose on the person as a penalty for that offence.

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