PENALTIES AND SENTENCES ACT 1992 - SECT 181A
Corporations to be fined if imprisonment is the only penalty
PENALTIES AND SENTENCES ACT 1992 - SECT 181A
Corporations to be fined if imprisonment is the only penalty
181A Corporations to be fined if imprisonment is the only penalty
(1) If—
(a) an Act provides that the punishment for an offence against a
provision of the Act is imprisonment only; and
(b) a body corporate is
convicted of having committed the offence;
the court by or before which the
body corporate is convicted may impose a fine on the body corporate determined
under subsection (2) .
(2) The fine mentioned in subsection (1) may be—
(a)
if the imprisonment is not more than 6 months—not more than 415 penalty
units; or
(b) if the imprisonment is more than 6 months but not more than 1
year—not more than 835 penalty units; or
(c) if the imprisonment is more
than 1 year but not more than 2 years—not more than 1,660 penalty units; or
(d) if the term of imprisonment is more than 2 years—an unlimited amount.
(3) Subsection (1) does not apply to an offence if the Act concerned provides
another way of enforcing the punishment mentioned in subsection (1) (a)
against a body corporate.
