Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENTAL OFFENCES AND PENALTIES ACT 1996 - SECT 8

Where an individual who, or a body corporate that, appears to have committed an environmental offence level 3 or an environmental offence level 4 is served with an infringement notice (however described), the sum the individual or body corporate may, as an alternative to prosecution, pay in lieu of the penalty prescribed under this Act is:

        (a)     in the case of an environmental offence level 3:

            (i)     where an individual is served with the infringement notice, 20 penalty units; or

            (ii)     where a corporation is served with the infringement notice, 100 penalty units; or

        (b)     in the case of an environmental offence level 4:

            (i)     where an individual is served with the infringement notice, 10 penalty unit; or

            (ii)     where a corporation is served with the infringement notice, 50 penalty units.