South Australian Consolidated Acts

ACTS INTERPRETATION ACT 1915 - SECT 30

30—Penalties

        (1)         A penalty set out at the foot of a section or subsection that contains words creating an offence indicates that the offence is punishable on conviction by a penalty not exceeding the penalty so set out or, where a minimum as well as a maximum penalty is so set out, by a penalty not less than the minimum and not more than the maximum.

        (2)         A penalty set out at the foot of a section or subsection that does not contain words creating an offence indicates that contravention of the section or subsection (whether by act or omission) constitutes an offence punishable on conviction by a penalty not exceeding the penalty so set out or, where a minimum as well as a maximum penalty is so set out, by a penalty not less than the minimum and not more than the maximum.

        (3)         In this section—

"penalty" includes punishment.