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Customer and Product Data Act 2025

Regulatory and enforcement matters - Civil liability - Pecuniary penalty order

74: Limit on pecuniary penalty for multiple contraventions of same or substantially similar nature

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“Limit on fines for doing the same wrong thing many times”

If you do something wrong that breaks the same rule multiple times, and these wrong actions are very similar and happened around the same time, there’s a limit to how much you can be fined. Even if you broke the rule many times, the court can’t make you pay more than the highest fine for breaking the rule once. This is to make sure you’re not unfairly punished for doing the same wrong thing over and over in a short period.

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Part 4 Regulatory and enforcement matters
Civil liability: Pecuniary penalty order

74Limit on pecuniary penalty for multiple contraventions of same or substantially similar nature

  1. This section applies if—

  2. the court finds, whether in the same or separate proceedings, that a person is liable to pay a pecuniary penalty in respect of 2 or more contraventions of the same civil liability provision; and
    1. those contraventions are of the same or a substantially similar nature and occurred at or about the same time.

      1. The total amount of any pecuniary penalty imposed on the person in respect of those contraventions must not exceed the amount of the maximum pecuniary penalty that may be imposed in respect of a single contravention.