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364: Payment of infringement fees
or “How to pay fines for immigration offences”
You could also call this:

“Limits on fines for breaking certain immigration rules”

This part of the law talks about the most money you can be charged for breaking certain immigration rules.

If you’re in charge of a commercial boat or plane that breaks the rules, you might have to pay up to $2,500. If you’re the company that owns the boat or plane, you might have to pay up to $5,000.

The law also talks about employers who break the rules when hiring people. If you’re an employer and you’re just one person, you might have to pay up to $1,000 for each worker you hired against the rules. If you’re an employer that’s a company or some other kind of group, you might have to pay up to $3,000 for each worker you hired against the rules.

Remember, these are the most you might have to pay. The actual amount could be less.

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Next up: 364B: Infringement fine for prescribed employment infringement offences

or “Fines for breaking employment rules when hiring workers”
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Part 10 Offences, penalties, and proceedings
Infringement offences

364AMaximum fees for infringement offences

  1. An infringement fee prescribed under this Act for a commercial craft infringement offence may not exceed,—

  2. in the case of a person in charge of a craft, $2,500; and
    1. in the case of a carrier of a craft, $5,000.

      1. An infringement fee prescribed under this Act for an employment infringement offence may not exceed,—

      2. in the case of an employer who is an individual, an infringement fee of $1,000 for each employee in respect of whom an employment infringement offence is being, or has been, committed; or
        1. in the case of an employer that is a body corporate or another entity, $3,000 for each employee in respect of whom an employment infringement offence is being, or was, committed.

          Notes
          • Section 364A: inserted, on , by section 9 of the Worker Protection (Migrant and Other Employees) Act 2023 (2023 No 36).