Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
149ACourt may vary pecuniary penalty order
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149A Court may vary pecuniary penalty order
(1) The court may vary the *pecuniary penalty order by reducing the *penalty amount by an amount worked out under subsection (2) if the court is satisfied that: (a) the order relates to more than one offence; and (b) when the *responsible authority applied for the order, the court could have made the order in relation to at least one of the offences that has not been *quashed. (2) The amount is an amount equal to so much of the *penalty amount as the court reasonably believes to be attributable to a person’s conviction of an offence: (a) to which the *pecuniary penalty order relates; and (b) that was *quashed. (3) In determining the amount by which the *penalty amount should be reduced under subsection (2), the court may have regard to: (a) the transcripts and evidence referred to in subsection 148(2); and (b) the transcript of, and the evidence given in, any proceedings relating to the application for the *pecuniary penalty order or any application to vary the order; and (c) any other matter that the court considers relevant.