Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) Subject to subsection (2), a court may order that a person pay a single civil penalty for multiple contraventions of a civil penalty provision if—
(a) the multiple contraventions are based on the same facts; or
(b) the multiple contraventions form, or are part of, a series of contraventions of the same or a similar nature.
(2) A single civil penalty ordered under subsection (1) must not exceed the sum of the maximum penalties that the court may have ordered if separate civil penalties were ordered for each of the contraventions.