Section 4AB — Crimes Act 1914: Conversion of pecuniary penalties expressed in dollar amounts to penalty units

(1) A reference in a law of the Commonwealth or in a Territory Ordinance to a pecuniary penalty of D dollars, where D is a number, is taken to be a reference to a pecuniary penalty of P penalty units, where P is: (a) if D 100 is a whole number—that whole number; or (b) if D 100 is not a whole number—the next highest whole number. (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a reference to the maximum amount of a penalty that is not imposed by a court, or by a service tribunal under the Defence Force Discipline Act 1982. (3) Subsection (1) does not apply to: (a) section 76 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010; or (c) a provision of a law of the Commonwealth prescribed for the purposes of this subsection. (4) In this section: penalty includes a fine. Territory Ordinance has the same meaning as in section 4AA.