New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

ELECTRICITY (CONSUMER SAFETY) REGULATION 2006 - REG 40

40 Penalty notice offences and penalties

(1) For the purposes of section 47 of the Act:

(a) each offence created by a provision of the Act or this Regulation specified in Column 1 of Schedule 3 is an offence for which a penalty notice may be served, and

(b) the penalty prescribed for each such offence is the amount of the penalty specified opposite the provision in Column 2 of that Schedule.

(2) If the reference to a provision in Column 1 of Schedule 3 is qualified by words that restrict its operation to specified kinds of offences, an offence created by the provision is a prescribed offence only if it is an offence of a kind so specified or committed in the circumstances so specified.