New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CIVIL AND ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL ACT 2013 - SECT 74

74 No double punishment for both contempt and offence or civil penalty provision contravention

(1) An act or omission may be punished as a contempt of the Tribunal even though it could be punished as an offence or a contravention of a civil penalty provision of this Act.

(2) An act or omission may be punished as an offence or a contravention of a civil penalty provision of this Act even though it could be punished as a contempt of the Tribunal.

(3) However, a person is not liable to be punished twice if the person's act or omission constitutes--

(a) both an offence and a contempt of the Tribunal, or

(b) both a contravention of a civil penalty provision of this Act and a contempt of the Tribunal.