Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) If an authorised infringement notice officer has reasonable grounds to believe that a person has contravened a designated infringement notice provision, the officer may give the person an infringement notice relating to the contravention.
(2) The infringement notice must be given within 12 months after the day on which the contravention is alleged to have taken place.
(3) Subsection (1) has effect subject to subsections (4) and (5).
(4) An authorised infringement notice officer must not give a person an infringement notice relating to a contravention of a designated infringement notice provision unless the officer, or another authorised infringement notice officer, has previously given a notice to the person under section 205XA in relation to:
(a) the contravention; or
(b) a similar contravention.
(5) Subsection (4) does not apply in relation to a contravention of a designated infringement notice provision in Part 9E.