Financial System Legislation Amendment (Financial Claims Scheme and Other Measures) Act 2008 (105 of 2008)

Schedule 1   Financial Claims Scheme

Part 1   Amendment of the Banking Act 1959

3   Subsection 5(1)

Insert:

civil penalty provision : a subsection of this Act (or a section of this Act that is not divided into subsections) is a civil penalty provision if:

(a) the words “civil penalty” and one or more amounts in penalty units are set out at the foot of the subsection (or section); or

(b) another provision of this Act specifies that the subsection (or section) is a civil penalty provision.

Note: Schedule 2 deals with contraventions of civil penalty provisions, and treats people who are involved in various ways in such a contravention as if they had contravened the provision concerned.