125Compliance audits

125  Compliance audits

Scope

 (1) This section applies if:

 (a) a person is, or has been, a registered person; and

 (b) the Regulator reasonably suspects that the person has contravened, is contravening, or is proposing to contravene:

 (ii) sections 134.1, 134.2, 135.1, 135.2, 135.4, 136.1, 137.1 and 137.2 of the Criminal Code, in so far as those sections relate to this Act.

Audit

 (2) The Regulator may, by notice in writing given to the person, require the person to:

 (a) appoint as an audit team leader:

 (i) an approved auditor of the person’s choice; or

 (ii) if the Regulator specifies a registered greenhouse and energy auditor in the notice—that auditor; or

 (iii) if the Regulator specifies more than one registered greenhouse and energy auditor in the notice—any one of those auditors; and

 (b) arrange for the audit team leader to carry out an audit on one or more aspects of the person’s compliance with:

 (ii) sections 134.1, 134.2, 135.1, 135.2, 135.4, 136.1, 137.1 and 137.2 of the Criminal Code, in so far as those sections relate to this Act; and

 (c) arrange for the audit team leader to give the person a written report setting out the results of the audit; and

 (d) give the Regulator a copy of the audit report on or before the day specified in the notice.

Note: For the conduct of an audit under this section, see section 75 of the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007.

 (3) The notice must specify:

 (a) the type of audit to be carried out; and

 (b) the matters to be covered by the audit; and

 (c) the form of the audit report and the kinds of details it is to contain.

 (4) A notice under subsection (2) is not a legislative instrument.

 (5) If the Regulator gives a person written notice under subsection (2), the person must comply with the requirements of the notice.

 (6) The maximum civil penalty for each day that a contravention of subsection (5) continues after the day specified for the purposes of paragraph (2)(d) is 5% of the maximum civil penalty that can be imposed in respect of that contravention.

Note: Subsection (5) is a continuing civil penalty provision under section 93 of the Regulatory Powers Act.