Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

INSURANCE ACT 1973 - SECT 7A

  (1)   A person commits an offence if:

  (a)   the person does an act or fails to do an act; and

  (b)   doing the act or failing to do the act results in a breach of a condition to which a determination in force under subsection   7(1) is subject; and

  (c)   the determination applies to the person.

Penalty:   60 penalty units.

  (2)   An offence against this section is an offence of strict liability.

Note 1:   For strict liability , see section   6.1 of the Criminal Code .

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

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