# Multiple contraventions

> act-s486V — as in force on 2026-06-04 — C2026C00232 · Compilation No. 171 — https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2026C00232/latest/text

486V Multiple contraventions
          (1) An eligible court may make a single civil penalty order against a
              person for multiple contraventions of a civil penalty provision if
              proceedings for the contraventions are founded on the same facts,
              or if the contraventions form, or are part of, a series of
              contraventions of the same or a similar character.
          (2) However, the penalty must not exceed the sum of the maximum
              penalties that could be ordered if a separate penalty were ordered
              for each of the contraventions.