Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) If:
(a) a person (the actor ) takes an action on an area of land that is a contravention of:
(i) a provision of Part 3 that is a civil penalty provision; or
(ii) section 142; and
(b) a landholder in relation to the area of land knew that, or was reckless or negligent as to whether, the contravention would occur; and
(c) the landholder was in a position to influence the conduct of the actor in relation to the contravention; and
(d) the landholder failed to take all reasonable steps to prevent the contravention;
the landholder contravenes this subsection.
(2) Subsection (1) is a civil penalty provision. Under section 481, the Federal Court may order a landholder contravening subsection (1) to pay a pecuniary penalty not more than the pecuniary penalty the Court could order the landholder to pay, if the landholder had contravened the civil penalty provision contravened by the actor.