Commonwealth Numbered Acts Commonwealth Numbered Acts(1) If the appropriate enforcement agency has reasonable grounds to believe that a person has contravened a civil penalty provision (a designated civil penalty provision ):
(a) set out in:
(i) Part 3, the water charge rules or the water market rules; or
(ii) Part 7; or
(b) referred to in regulations made for the purposes of this paragraph;
the appropriate enforcement agency may give to the person an infringement notice relating to the alleged contravention.
(2) An 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 may be given to a person in respect of:
(a) 2 or more alleged contraventions of a designated civil penalty provision; and
(b) alleged contraventions of 2 or more designated civil penalty provisions.
However, the notice must not require the person to pay more than one penalty in respect of the same conduct.