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CRIMES ACT 1914 SECT 4AB
4AB Conversion of pecuniary penalties expressed in dollar
amounts to penalty units
- (1)
- A reference in a law of the Commonwealth or in a
Territory Ordinance to a pecuniary penalty of D dollars,
where D is a number, is taken to be a reference to a
pecuniary penalty of P penalty units, where P is:
- (a)
- if D ÷ 100 is a whole number—that whole number;
or
- (b)
- if D ÷ 100 is not a whole number—the next highest
whole number.
- (2)
- Subsection (1) does not apply to a reference to the
maximum amount of a penalty that is not imposed by a
court, or by a service tribunal under the Defence
Force Discipline Act 1982 .
(3) Subsection (1) does not apply to:
- (a)
- section 76 of the Trade
Practices Act 1974 ; or
- (b)
- a law that is a national scheme law for the purposes
of the Australian
Securities
and Investments Commission Act 1989 ; or
- (c)
- a provision of a law of the Commonwealth prescribed
for the purposes of this subsection.
- (4)
- In this section:
penalty includes a fine.
Territory Ordinance has the same meaning as in section 4AA.
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