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Independent Competition and Regulatory Commission Act 1997
54VMultiple contraventions
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54V Multiple contraventions (1) The court may order that a person pay a single civil penalty for multiple contraventions of a civil penalty provision if the contraventions— (a) are based on the same facts; or (b) form, or are part of, a series of contraventions of the same or a similar kind. (2) However, the single civil penalty 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.