Simplified outline
3 Simplified outline
The following is a simplified outline of this Act:
This Act creates a framework for each of the following:
monitoring whether provisions of an Act or a legislative instrument have been, or are being, complied with;
monitoring whether information given in compliance, or purported compliance, with a provision of an Act or a legislative instrument is correct;
monitoring other matters to which an Act or legislative instruments relates;
gathering material that relates to the contravention of an offence provision or a civil penalty provision;
the use of civil penalties to enforce provisions;
the use of infringement notices where there is a reasonable belief that a provision has been contravened;
the acceptance and enforcement of undertakings relating to compliance with provisions;
the use of injunctions to enforce provisions.
A provision of an Act or a legislative instrument is not subject to monitoring, investigation or enforcement under this Act by force of this Act. This Act must be triggered by another Act.
This Act’s bill:Explanatory memorandumSecond reading speech
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