Monetary Penalties Enforcement Amendment Regulations (No. 3) 2008


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Monetary Penalties Enforcement Amendment Regulations (No. 3) 2008

I, the Governor in and over the State of Tasmania and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, make the following regulations under the Monetary Penalties Enforcement Act 2005 .

24 November 2008

PETER G. UNDERWOOD

Governor

By His Excellency's Command,

LARA GIDDINGS

Minister for Justice

1.   Short title

These regulations may be cited as the Monetary Penalties Enforcement Amendment Regulations (No. 3) 2008 .

2.   Commencement

These regulations take effect on the day on which their making is notified in the Gazette.

3.   Principal Regulations

In these regulations, the Monetary Penalties Enforcement Regulations 2008 are referred to as the Principal Regulations.

4.    Regulation 3A inserted

After regulation 3 of the Principal Regulations , the following regulation is inserted:

3A.   Prescribed penalties for offences specified in infringement notices

For the purposes of section 14(a)(ii) of the Act, the prescribed penalty that applies in relation to an offence specified in an infringement notice is the penalty that is prescribed, in relation to the issuing or serving of the infringement notice to which the offence relates, by the Act under which that offence is created.

5.    Schedule 1 amended (Prescribed amounts payable)

Schedule 1 to the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting from column 2 of item 2 "Division 2 of".

Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.

Notified in the Gazette on 3 December 2008

These regulations are administered in the Department of Justice.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the regulation)

These regulations amend the Monetary Penalties Enforcement Regulations 2008 by prescribing, for the purposes of section 14(a)(ii) of the Monetary Penalties Enforcement Act 2005 , the penalties for offences specified in infringement notices.