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Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994
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#### 170 Provisions relating to offences
(1) Offences against subsections 162(1), (8) and (9) and subsection 163(1) are indictable offences.
(2) All other offences against this Code are summary offences.
(3) A provision of this Code relating to indictable offences or summary offences is taken to refer to bodies corporate as well as to individuals.
(4) If an individual is convicted of an indictable offence against this Code, the court may, if the court thinks it appropriate in all the circumstances of the case, impose, instead of, or in addition to, a penalty of imprisonment, a monetary penalty not greater than the number of penalty units worked out using the formula:
where:
> Term of Imprisonment means the number of months in the maximum term of imprisonment by which the offence is punishable.
(5) If a body corporate is convicted of an offence against this Code, the court may, if the court thinks fit, impose a monetary penalty not greater than 5 times the amount of the maximum monetary penalty that could be imposed by the court on an individual convicted of the same offence.