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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1986 - SECT 99Z

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1986 - SECT 99Z

99Z .         Orders regarding monetary benefits

        (1)         If a court convicts a person of any offence against this Act, the court may order the offender to pay an additional penalty of an amount not exceeding the court’s estimation of the amount of any monetary benefits acquired by the offender, or accrued or accruing to the offender, as a result of the commission of the offence.

        (2)         In this section —

        monetary benefits means —

            (a)         monetary, financial or economic benefits of any kind; and

            (b)         monetary savings, or a reduction in expenditure, achieved by the avoidance of charges, fees or other costs that would have been incurred by the offender if the offender had not committed the offence.

        [Section 99Z inserted: No. 14 of 1998 s. 14; amended: No. 40 of 2020 s. 82.]