Foreign Investment Reform (Protecting Australia's National Security) Act 2020 (114 of 2020)

Schedule 2   Compliance and enforcement

Part 1   Amendments

Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975

13   At the end of section 92

Add:

(2) A person who contravenes subsection (1) is liable to a civil penalty.

Penalty

(3) The maximum penalty for the contravention is the lesser of the following:

(a) 2,500,000 penalty units;

(b) the greater of the following:

(i) 5,000 penalty units (or 50,000 penalty units if the person is a corporation);

(ii) the amount worked out under section 98F for the action.


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