71When infringement notice may be given

71 When infringement notice may be given

(1) If the airport building controller for an airport site believes on reasonable grounds that a person has committed an infringement notice offence, the controller may give the person an infringement notice for the alleged contravention.

Note: The infringement notice penalty in respect of an offence is set at one‑fifth of the maximum fine that a court could impose for the offence—see subsection 111(2) of the Act.

(2) The infringement notice must be given within 12 months after the day on which the contravention is alleged to have taken place. (3) A single infringement notice must relate only to a single contravention of a single provision unless subsection (4) applies. (4) The airport building controller may give a person a single infringement notice relating to multiple contraventions of a single provision if: (a) the provision requires the person to do a thing within a particular period or before a particular time; and (b) the person fails or refuses to do that thing within that period or before that time; and (c) the failure or refusal occurs on more than one day; and (d) each contravention is constituted by the failure or refusal on one of those days.

Note: For continuing offences, see subsection 4K(2) of the Crimes Act 1914.