Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

GENE TECHNOLOGY ACT 2000 - SECT 8

  (1)   Chapter   2 of the Criminal Code applies to all offences against this Act.

Note:   Chapter   2 of the Criminal Code sets out the general principles of criminal responsibility.

  (2)   If a maximum penalty is specified:

  (a)   at the foot of a section of this Act (other than a section that is divided into subsections); or

  (b)   at the foot of a subsection of this Act;

then:

  (c)   a person who contravenes the section or subsection commits an offence punishable, on conviction, by a penalty not exceeding the specified penalty; or

  (d)   the offence referred to in the section or subsection is punishable, on conviction, by a penalty not exceeding the specified penalty.