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Telecommunications Act 2001

Enforcement - Enforcement of statutory and regulatory provisions - Civil infringement notice

156E: Objection to civil infringement notice

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"Objecting to a fine: how to disagree with a civil infringement notice"

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If you get a civil infringement notice, you can write to the Commission to object. You can object for one or both of these reasons: that you did not do what you are accused of, or that the fine is too much considering what you are accused of. You must include the required information in your objection and send it to the Commission within the required time and in the correct way. The Commission will look at your objection and decide what to do next.

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Part 4AEnforcement
Enforcement of statutory and regulatory provisions: Civil infringement notice

156EObjection to civil infringement notice

  1. A person who has been served with a civil infringement notice may make a written objection to the Commission on either or both of the following grounds:

  2. that the person has not committed the alleged breach:
    1. that the amount of the pecuniary penalty specified in the notice is excessive having regard to the nature of the alleged breach.

      1. An objection must—

      2. contain the prescribed information; and
        1. be made within the prescribed time and in the prescribed manner.

          Notes
          • Section 156E: inserted, on , by section 54 of the Telecommunications Amendment Act (No 2) 2006 (2006 No 83).