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Section 1317E of the corporations act refers to declarations of contraventions. At the end it says that Once the declaration has been made, ASIC can then seek penalties OR disqualifications.
Does that mean if you breach any of those civil penalty provisions ASIC can EITHER ban or fine you, but not both?
Hello licencefx,
Thank you for your question.
Under s 1317E ASIC can seek both a pecuniary penalty order and a disqualification order. An example of this is ASIC v Vizard, where the court imposed pecuniary penalties of $390,000 and disqualified Vizard for 10 years.
See ss 1317G and 206C for further detail as to what the court will have regards to in determining whether either or both are justified.
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