291Infringement offences

291 Infringement offences

291 Infringement offences

(1) An authorised officer or other person authorised by the Regulatory Authority may serve an infringement notice on a person for a contravention of—

(a1) sections 19(4), 36(3), 51(8), 68(1), 69(1), 84(3), 161, 161A, 162(1), 163(1), 164A(1) and (2), 169(1)–(5), 170(2)–(4), 171(2), 174(1) and (2), 175(1) and (3), 177(3), 178(6) and (7), 179(3), 217 and 261A(5); or

Note—

This paragraph is an additional NSW provision.

(a) section 172, 173, 176 or 269; or

(b) offences against the national regulations that are prescribed for the purposes of this section; or

(c) offences against the national regulations that are prescribed by the NSW regulations for this section.

Note—

This paragraph is an additional NSW provision.

(2) The infringement penalty for an offence for which an infringement notice may be served on a person is the amount which is 10 per cent of the maximum penalty that could be imposed on the person in respect of that offence.

(3) An infringement notice must be in the form prescribed or contain the information prescribed by the infringements law of this jurisdiction.

(4) Subject to this section, the infringements law of this jurisdiction applies to infringement notices served under this section in this jurisdiction.

(5) The NSW regulations may provide for matters relating to infringement offences, including—

(a) prescribing additional offences as infringement offences; and

(b) modifying the maximum infringement penalties for offences; and

(c) prescribing offences as disciplinary notice offences; and

(d) providing for the maximum penalties for disciplinary notice offences.

Note—

This subsection is a substituted NSW provision.

s 291: Am 2025 No 68, Sch 1[9].