Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN CHARITIES AND NOT-FOR-PROFITS COMMISSION ACT 2012 - SECT 85.30

  (1)   A registered entity commits an offence if:

  (a)   it does, or fails to do, an act; and

  (b)   doing, or failing to do, the act results in a contravention of a direction given to it under Subdivision   85 - B.

Penalty:   40 penalty units.

Note:   If a body corporate is convicted of an offence against this subsection, subsection   4B(3) of the Crimes Act 1914 allows a court to impose a fine of up to 5 times the penalty stated above.

  (2)   If a registered entity does or fails to do an act in circumstances that give rise to the registered entity committing an offence against subsection   (1), the registered entity commits an offence against that subsection in respect of:

  (a)   the first day on which the offence is committed; and

  (b)   each subsequent day (if any) on which the circumstances that gave rise to the registered entity committing the offence continue (including the day of conviction for any such offence or any later day).

Note:   This subsection is not intended to imply that section   4K of the Crimes Act 1914 does not apply to offences against this Act or the regulations.