Nature of offences
29 Nature of offences
Subject to this section, offences against this Part are minor indictable offences.
The prosecution may elect to charge a person who is alleged to have committed an offence against
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2 with a summary offence.
An offence against
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2 is an expiable offence. Expiation fee:
If the offender is a body corporate—$2 500.
If the offender is a natural person—$500.
If a person who is alleged to have committed an offence against
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2 is given an expiation notice in respect of the offence and the person does not expiate the offence, then any prosecution of the person for the offence must be brought as a summary offence.
If proceedings for a summary offence are brought under this section—
it is no defence that the defendant had a mistaken but reasonable belief as to the facts that constituted the offence; and
the maximum penalty that the court may impose for the relevant offence is $10 000 (despite any higher maximum penalty provided in respect of the offence under the relevant provision).
Subsection (5)(a) does not operate so as to exclude the defence under section 26 or
28.
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