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CORPORATIONS ACT 2001 - SECT 588J

On application for civil penalty order, Court may order compensation

  (1)   Where, on an application for a civil penalty order against a person in relation to a contravention of subsection   588G(2), the Court is satisfied that:

  (a)   the person committed the contravention in relation to the incurring of a debt by a company; and

  (b)   the debt is wholly or partly unsecured; and

  (c)   the person to whom the debt is owed has suffered loss or damage in relation to the debt because of the company's insolvency;

the Court may (whether or not it makes a pecuniary penalty order under section   1317G or an order under section   206C disqualifying a person from managing corporations) order the first - mentioned person to pay to the company compensation equal to the amount of that loss or damage.

  (1A)   If, on an application for a civil penalty order against a person for a contravention of subsection   588GAB(2) or 588GAC(2) relating to a disposition of property of a company, the Court is satisfied that:

  (a)   the person contravened the subsection; and

  (b)   one or more creditors of the company suffered loss or damage because of the disposition and the company's insolvency;

the Court may order the person to pay the company compensation equal to the loss or damage (whether or not the Court makes a pecuniary penalty order under section   1317G or an order under section   206C disqualifying the person from managing corporations).

  (2)   A company's liquidator may intervene in an application for a civil penalty order against a person in relation to a contravention of subsection   588G(2), 588GAB(2) or 588GAC(2) relating to the company.

  (3)   A company's liquidator who so intervenes is entitled to be heard:

  (a)   only if the Court is satisfied that the person committed the contravention; and

  (b)   only on the question whether the Court should order the person to pay compensation to the company.



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