Marine (Domestic Commercial Vessel National Law Application) Act 2013
162Regulations may prescribe penalties etc.
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162 Regulations may prescribe penalties etc.
(1) The regulations may prescribe penalties not more than 50 penalty units for offences against the regulations.
(2) The regulations may prescribe civil penalties for contraventions of the regulations, not more than:
(a) for a body corporate—500 penalty units; or
(b) in any other case—100 penalty units.
(3) The regulations may provide for a person who is alleged to have contravened a provision of the regulations for whose contravention a civil penalty is prescribed to pay a penalty to the Commonwealth as an alternative to proceedings for a civil penalty.
(4) The penalty must not exceed one‑tenth of the maximum penalty that a court could have ordered the person to pay if the court was satisfied that the person had contravened that provision.