117Scale of damages for breach of performance standards

#### 117 Scale of damages for breach of performance standards (1) The ACMA may, by legislative instrument, specify a scale of damages for contraventions of standards under section 115. (2) The scale must: (a) specify categories of contraventions; and (b) specify a dollar amount as the amount of damages payable for contraventions covered by each of those categories. (3) A dollar amount specified in accordance with paragraph (2)(b) must not exceed $25,000. (4) A category may be specified by reference to contraventions that continue over a specified number of days. (5) Subsection (4) does not, by implication, limit the ways in which a category may be specified.