WATER ACT 2007 - SECT 148 Multiple contraventions
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.