Victorian Current Acts

ESSENTIAL SERVICES COMMISSION ACT 2001 - SECT 54P

    (1)     Subject to subsection (2), a court may order that a person pay a single civil penalty for multiple contraventions of a civil penalty requirement 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.

New s. 54Q inserted by No. 41/2021 s. 9.