288HGuide to this Part

288H  Guide to this Part This Part is about the use of infringement notices where ASIC reasonably believes that a provision has been contravened. Division 2 authorises ASIC to give an infringement notice in relation to a contravention of certain provisions. A person who is given an infringement notice can choose to pay an amount as an alternative to having court proceedings brought against the person for the contravention. If the person does not choose to pay the amount, proceedings can be brought against the person for the contravention. Division 2—Infringement notices 288J  When an infringement notice may be given  (1) If ASIC believes on reasonable grounds that a person has contravened a provision subject to an infringement notice under this Part, ASIC may give the person an infringement notice for the alleged contravention.  (2) The infringement notice must be given within 12 months after the day on which the contravention is alleged to have taken place.  (3) A single infringement notice must relate only to a single contravention of a single provision unless subsection (4) applies.  (4) ASIC may give a person a single infringement notice relating to multiple contraventions of a single provision if:  (a) the provision requires the person to do a thing within a particular period or before a particular time; and  (b) the person fails or refuses to do that thing within that period or before that time; and  (c) the failure or refusal occurs on more than 1 day; and  (d) each contravention is constituted by the failure or refusal on one of those days.  (5) If an alleged contravention would, if proved, constitute both a contravention of a civil penalty provision and of an offence provision, the infringement notice must relate to the alleged contravention of the offence provision.