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Carbon Pricing Bill · As enacted · Part 9 · Miscellaneous
71. Composition of offences
Feedback & support(1)
An officer of the Agency authorised by the Agency to compound offences may compound any offence under this Act that is prescribed as a compoundable offence, by collecting from a person reasonably suspected of having committed the offence a sum not exceeding the lower of the following:
(a)
one half of the amount of the maximum fine that is prescribed for the offence;
(b)
$5,000.
(2)
On payment of such sum of money, no further proceedings may be taken against that person in respect of the offence under this Act.