Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The penalty payable under an * infringement notice for a civil contravention is the fine specified in the notice.
(2) The fine specified is to be at the rate that, under the provisions of the * Compliance Scheme referred to in subsection 49(3), is the appropriate rate of fine for the contravention.
(3) The * Compliance Scheme may specify different rates of fine to be payable according to the number of civil contraventions a person has committed, or has committed in a specified period, and according to whether a person is a body corporate or an individual. These are the only grounds on which the Compliance Scheme may specify different rates of fine as being appropriate.
(4) A rate of fine specified in the * Compliance Scheme as being appropriate for a civil contravention by a person must not be more than one - fifth of the maximum pecuniary penalty that the * Federal Court could order the person to pay under Division 2 in respect of that contravention (see subsection 14(3)).