Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Where an application is made to a court for a pecuniary penalty order against a person in reliance on the person's conviction of a serious offence, the court shall not make a pecuniary penalty order in reliance on the conviction until after the end of the period of 6 months commencing on the day of the conviction.
(2) Subsection ( 1) does not apply to an application for a pecuniary penalty order against a person who is to be taken to have been convicted of the serious offence by reason of paragraph 5(1)(d).