7Environmental infringement notices and penalties

7 Environmental infringement notices and penalties

(1)  For the purposes of section 72 of the Act, an offence under a provision of the Act specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 is a prescribed offence.

(2)  The penalty for a prescribed offence is –

(a) for an environmental infringement notice issued to an individual, the penalty for that offence that is specified in column 2 of Schedule 1 opposite that offence; and

(b) for an environmental infringement notice issued to a body corporate, the penalty for that offence that is specified in column 3 of Schedule 1 opposite that offence.