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323 Multiple contraventions of civil penalty provisions
(1) Subject to subsection (2), the Court may order that a person pay a single civil penalty for multiple contraventions of a civil penalty provision if—
(a) the multiple contraventions are based on the same facts; or
(b) the multiple contraventions form, or are part of, a series of contraventions of the same or a similar nature.
(2) A single civil penalty ordered under subsection (1) must not exceed the sum of the maximum penalties that the Court may have ordered if separate civil penalties were ordered for each of the contraventions.
S. 324 inserted by No. 39/2018 s. 7 (as amended by Nos 27/2019 ss 12−30, 3/2020 ss 42–44, 47/2020 s. 26).