55Prescribed civil penalties

55 Prescribed civil penalties

55 Prescribed civil penalties

(1) For the Act, section 16(1)(c), the following civil penalties are prescribed—

(a) a civil penalty imposed under the Industrial Relations Act 1996, section 136A, 144H, 144N, 144U or 357,

(b) a pecuniary penalty imposed under the Australian Consumer Law of the Commonwealth, section 224 that relates to a contravention of section 20, 21, 29, 31, 33, 34, 36 or 50 of that law,

(c) a pecuniary penalty imposed under the Fair Work Act 2009 of the Commonwealth, section 546 that relates to a contravention of that Act.

(2) This section only applies for an application for a master licence or for the renewal of a master licence and only if a total of at least 5 penalties specified in subsection (1), whether of the same or a different kind, have been imposed during a period of 2 years.