Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014

If an infringement officer believes on reasonable grounds that a person has contravened a provision subject to an infringement notice under this Part, the infringement officer may give to the person an infringement notice for the alleged contravention.

The infringement notice must be given within 12 months after the day on which the contravention is alleged to have taken place.

A single infringement notice must relate only to a single contravention of a single provision unless subsection (4) applies.

An infringement officer may give a person a single infringement notice relating to multiple contraventions of a single provision if:

the provision requires the person to do a thing within a particular period or before a particular time; and

the person fails or refuses to do that thing within that period or before that time; and

the failure or refusal occurs on more than 1 day; and

each contravention is constituted by the failure or refusal on one of those days.

For continuing offences, see subsection 4K(2) of the Crimes Act 1914. For continuing contraventions of civil penalty provisions, see section 93 of this Act.

If an alleged contravention would, if proved, constitute both a contravention of a civil penalty provision and of an offence provision, the infringement notice must relate to the alleged contravention of the offence provision.