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National Parks Act 1980

Offences

69B: Penalties for offences committed for commercial gain or reward

You could also call this:

"Tougher punishments for breaking national park rules to make money"

If you break the law in a national park to make money, you can face tougher punishments. If the court decides you did it to make money, even if you didn't actually get any, you can get a bigger fine or go to jail.

If you're a person, not a company, you could go to jail for up to 5 years or pay a fine of up to $300,000, or both. If you're a company, you could be fined up to $300,000.

If you keep breaking the law over many days, you might have to pay an extra $20,000 for each day you keep doing it.

These punishments are stronger than the usual ones in the law. They apply even if other parts of the law say something different.

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Part 7Offences

69BPenalties for offences committed for commercial gain or reward

  1. If a person is convicted of an offence against this Act and, on sentencing for that offence, the court is satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the offence was committed for the purpose of commercial gain or reward (whether or not any gain or reward is realised), the person is liable instead of any penalty otherwise prescribed to,—

  2. in the case of an individual, imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years or a fine not exceeding $300,000, or both:
    1. in the case of a body corporate, a fine not exceeding $300,000:
      1. in any case, where the offence is a continuing one, a further fine not exceeding $20,000 for every day on which the offence continues.

        1. Subsection (1) overrides every other provision of this Act to the contrary.

        Notes
        • Section 69B: inserted, on , by section 12 of the Conservation (Natural Heritage Protection) Act 2013 (2013 No 89).