Western Australian Current Acts

SENTENCING ACT 1995 - SECT 55

55 .         Apportionment of fine between joint offenders

        (1)         If a court sentencing 2 or more joint offenders decides to fine them it may apportion between them as it thinks fit the fine it would have imposed if there were only one offender.

        (2)         If the statutory penalty for the offence is a mandatory fine or includes a minimum fine, a court apportioning a fine under subsection (1) must apportion at least the mandatory fine or the minimum fine, as the case requires.

        (3)         In this section —

        joint offenders means persons who are each convicted of an offence because a legal relationship between them (such as being co-owners of property) results in each of them being criminally responsible for the act or omission constituting the offence.