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WATER ACT 2007 - SECT 148

Multiple contraventions

  (1)   A Court may make a single pecuniary penalty order against a person for multiple contraventions of a civil penalty provision if proceedings for the contraventions are founded on the same facts, or if the contraventions form, or are part of, a series of contraventions of the same or a similar character.

Note:   For continuing contraventions of civil penalty provisions, see section   154B.

  (2)   However, the penalty must not exceed the sum of the maximum penalties that could be ordered if a separate penalty were ordered for each of the contraventions.


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