SHIPPING REGISTRATION ACT 1981 - SECT 61BQ When an infringement notice may be given

SHIPPING REGISTRATION ACT 1981 - SECT 61BQ

  (1)   If the Authority has reasonable grounds to believe that a person has contravened a civil penalty provision, the Authority may give to the person an infringement notice for the alleged contravention .

  (2)   The infringement notice must be given within 12 months after the day the contravention is alleged to have taken place.

  (3)   A single infringement notice must relate only to a single contravention of a single civil penalty provision unless subsection   ( 4) applies.

  (4)   The Authority may give a person a single infringement notice relating to multiple contraventions of a single provision if:

  (a)   the provision requires the person to do a thing within a particular period or before a particular time; and

  (b)   the person fails or refuses to do that thing within that period or before that time; and

  (c)   the failure or refusal occurs on more than one day; and

  (d)   each contravention is constituted by the failure or refusal on one of those days.

Note:   For continuing offences, see subsection   4K(2) of the Crimes Act 1914 . For continuing contraventions of civil penalty provisions, see section   61BP of this Act.