# Additional rules relating to the sponsorship civil penalty provisions

> act-s486S — as in force on 2026-06-04 — C2026C00232 · Compilation No. 171 — https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2026C00232/latest/text

486S Additional rules relating to the sponsorship civil penalty
         provisions
          (1) This section applies if an application for a civil penalty order
              against a person is made to an eligible court in relation to an
              alleged contravention of a civil penalty provision in Division 3A of
              Part 2.

               Engaging in similar conduct
          (2) For the purposes of subsection 486R(6), the person is taken to have
              engaged in similar conduct if the person has failed to satisfy a
              sponsorship obligation that is different from the sponsorship
              obligation to which the application relates.
          (3) Subsection (2) does not limit the circumstances in which a person
              may be found to have engaged in similar conduct.

               Order to pay a required amount
          (4) If, when determining the application, it appears to the eligible court
              that:










                 (a) an amount of a kind prescribed in the regulations made for
                     purposes of subsection 140S(1) is required to be paid by the
                     person to the Commonwealth, a State or Territory or another
                     person; and
                 (b) the amount remains unpaid after the time for payment; and
                 (c) proceedings to recover the amount have not been brought
                     under section 140S;
               the court may order that the amount be paid to the Commonwealth,
               State, Territory or other person (as the case may be).
               Note:      Section 140S allows a person to bring proceedings to recover an
                          amount owed if the eligible court does not make an order under this
                          subsection.

          (5) If the eligible court makes an order under subsection (4):
                (a) an application may be made under subsection 140SA(1), and
                     an order made under subsection 140SA(2), as if proceedings
                     for a civil penalty order were proceedings under
                     section 140S; and
                (b) section 140SB applies as if the amount ordered to be paid
                     under subsection (4) of this section were a judgement debt
                     under a judgement of an eligible court under section 140S.