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Corporations Act 1989
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#### 31 Penalty notices
(1) The regulations:
(a) may prescribe offences against the Law (not being offences the penalties applicable to which include a term of imprisonment or a pecuniary penalty that exceeds $1,000), or offences against the regulations, for the purposes of section 1313 of the Law; and
(b) must, in relation to each offence that is prescribed under this subsection:
(i) prescribe the particulars of that offence that are to be given in a notice served on a person under that section in relation to the offence; and
(ii) prescribe the amount of the penalty (being not more than half the amount of the penalty applicable to the offence) that is payable in respect of the offence under a notice served on a person under that section in relation to the offence.
(2) In subsection (1), a reference to a penalty applicable to an offence is a reference to the penalty that is applicable to that offence because of any of the provisions of section 1311 of the Law.
(3) The particulars of an offence required to be prescribed by subparagraph (1)(b)(i) may be prescribed by being set out in the form prescribed for the purposes of section 1313 of the Law in relation to the offence.