Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CRIMES ACT 1914 - SECT 4AB

  (1)   A reference in a law of the Commonwealth or in a Territory Ordinance to a pecuniary penalty of D dollars, where D is a number, is taken to be a reference to a pecuniary penalty of P penalty units, where P is:

  (a)   if D  100 is a whole number--that whole number; or

  (b)   if D  100 is not a whole number--the next highest whole number.

  (2)   Subsection   (1) does not apply to a reference to the maximum amount of a penalty that is not imposed by a court, or by a service tribunal under the Defence Force Discipline Act 1982 .

  (3)   Subsection   (1) does not apply to:

  (a)   section   76 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 ; or

  (c)   a provision of a law of the Commonwealth prescribed for the purposes of this subsection.

  (4)   In this section:

"penalty" includes a fine.

"Territory Ordinance" has the same meaning as in section   4AA.