Victorian Current Acts

CHILD EMPLOYMENT ACT 2003 - SECT 46D

    (1)     On or before the date specified in a compliance notice or, if the Wage Inspectorate Victoria has extended the date under section 46B(3), on or before that extended date—

        (a)     no proceeding may be commenced for an offence against this Act that is constituted by the alleged contravention to which the compliance notice relates; and

        (b)     no other enforcement action may be taken in respect of the alleged contravention to which the compliance notice relates.

    (2)     If a person fulfils all of the requirements of a compliance notice, after the date specified in the notice or, if the Wage Inspectorate Victoria has extended the date under section 46B(3), after that extended date—

        (a)     no proceeding may be commenced for an offence against this Act that is constituted by the alleged contravention to which the compliance notice related; and

        (b)     no other enforcement action may be taken in respect of the alleged contravention to which the compliance notice related.

    (3)     The fulfillment of the requirements of a compliance notice by a person is not and must not be taken to be—

        (a)     if the provision of this Act specified in the notice is an offence, an admission of guilt in relation to the offence; or

        (b)     an admission that the person has contravened the provision of this Act specified in the notice for the purposes of any enforcement action, and the fulfillment of the requirements does not in any way affect or prejudice any such enforcement action.

S. 46D(4) substituted by No. 27/2022 s. 73.

    (4)     In this section—

"enforcement action" means the variation, suspension or cancellation of the person's licence by the Wage Inspectorate Victoria.

Division 2—Offences

S. 47 (Heading) substituted by No. 27/2022 s. 39(1).