Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CRIMES LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1992 No. 164 of 1992 - SECT 19

19. After section 4A of the Principal Act, the following sections are
inserted: Penalty units

"4AA.(1) In a law of the Commonwealth or a Territory Ordinance, unless the
contrary intention appears:
'penalty unit' means $100.

"(2) In this section:
'Territory Ordinance' means an ordinance that:

   (a)  was made under an Act providing for the acceptance, administration or
        government of a Territory other than the Territory of Norfolk Island;
        and

   (b)  has not become an enactment of the Australian Capital Territory; and
        includes a regulation made under such an ordinance. Conversion of
        pecuniary penalties expressed in dollar amounts to penalty units

"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 is a whole number - that whole number; or
100

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

"(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 Trade Practices Act 1974; or

   (b)  a law that is a national scheme law for the purposes of the
        Australian  Securities Commission Act 1989 ; 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.".