Queensland Consolidated Acts

ACTS INTERPRETATION ACT 1954 - SECT 41A

41A Penalty other than at end of provision

(1) In an Act, a penalty specified for an offence, or a contravention of a provision, indicates that the offence is punishable on conviction (whether or not a conviction is recorded), or the contravention constitutes an offence against the provision that is punishable on conviction (whether or not a conviction is recorded)—

(a) if a minimum as well as a maximum penalty is specified—by a penalty not less than the minimum and not more than the maximum; or

(b) in any other case—by a penalty not more than the specified penalty.

(2) This section does not apply to a penalty to which section 41 applies.