Victorian Current Acts

ESSENTIAL SERVICES COMMISSION ACT 2001 - SECT 54ZB

    (1)     The payment of a notice penalty under this Part is not and must not be taken to be an admission of—

        (a)     a contravention of a civil penalty requirement; or

        (b)     liability or guilt for the purposes of a proceeding specified in subsection (2).

    (2)     For the purposes of subsection (1), the proceedings are—

        (a)     a proceeding for a contravention order in relation to conduct that is substantially the same as the conduct constituting the contravention to which the penalty relates; or

        (b)     a criminal proceeding for an offence constituted by conduct that is substantially the same as the conduct constituting the contravention to which the penalty relates.

    (3)     The payment of a notice penalty under this Part must not be referred to in any report provided to a court for the purpose of determining sentence for any offence.

S. 54ZC inserted by No. 41/2021 s. 9.