Orders regarding monetary benefits
13.24 Orders regarding monetary benefits
The court may order the offender to pay, as part of the penalty for committing the offence, an additional penalty of an amount the court is satisfied, on the balance of probabilities, represents the amount of any monetary benefits acquired by the offender, or accrued or accruing to the offender, as a result of the commission of the offence.
The amount of an additional penalty for an offence is not subject to any maximum amount of penalty provided elsewhere by or under this Act.
The regulations may prescribe a protocol to be used in determining the amount that represents the monetary benefit acquired by the offender or accrued or accruing to the offender.
In this section—
monetary benefits means monetary, financial or economic benefits.
the court does not include the Local Court.
This provision refers to the regulations (The regulations may prescribe
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