Penalties for contravention
24 Penalties for contravention
The provisions of a stewardship administration agreement may be enforced by penalty provisions or in another way that the agreement may provide.
A product stewardship organisation that contravenes a provision of a stewardship administration agreement that is enforceable by a penalty provision is liable to pay, as a debt due to the EPA, an amount determined in accordance with the agreement as the penalty for the contravention.
This section, and the provisions of stewardship administration agreements authorised by this section, have effect despite another law.
In this section—
penalty provision means a provision of a stewardship administration agreement that provides for the payment of an amount of penalty for the contravention of a specified provision of the agreement.
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