Competition and Consumer Act 2010
51ACFAmount of penalty
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51ACF Amount of penalty
(1) The penalty to be specified in an infringement notice to be issued to a person, for an alleged contravention of a civil penalty provision of an industry code, must be equal to the following:
(a) if subsection (2) applies to the industry code:
(i) if the person is a body corporate—600 penalty units; or
(ii) otherwise—12 penalty units;
(b) otherwise:
(i) if the person is a body corporate—60 penalty units; or
(ii) otherwise—12 penalty units.
Industry codes relating to food and groceries, or oil
(2) This subsection applies to an industry code that:
(a) relates to:
(i) food and groceries; or
(ii) the conduct of suppliers, distributors and retailers in the petroleum marketing industry; and
(b) provides that this subsection applies to the code.