Civil penalties under review.

Australasian Business Intelligence, March, 2003

Mar 20, 2003 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX)

A report from the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) has found a series of problems with Australia's penalty regimes. The penalty systems reviewed in the 1,043-page report include those of the Australian Taxation Office and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). According to the ALRC commissioner, Ian Davis, there is a need for a statute that would govern the imposition of penalties across a range of areas, as well as a sharpening of the legislative distinction between criminal and civil administrative penalties.

Publication Date: 21 March 2003

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