Competition and Consumer Act 2010

The penalty to be specified in an infringement notice to be issued to a person, for an alleged contravention of a civil penalty provision of an industry code, must be equal to the following:

if subsection (2) applies to the industry code:

if the person is a body corporate—600 penalty units; or

otherwise—12 penalty units;

otherwise:

if the person is a body corporate—60 penalty units; or

otherwise—12 penalty units.

This subsection applies to an industry code that:

relates to:

food and groceries; or

the conduct of suppliers, distributors and retailers in the petroleum marketing industry; and

provides that this subsection applies to the code.