Jenny McAllister (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

The assessment is 'none' because, as I have indicated to you, the historical experience is that there has been 100 per cent compliance. I do have some additional information about how a penalty would be imposed in a more tactical way. It is not an automatic penalty; it is the maximum penalty that can be imposed by a court:

… the amount of any penalty imposed for a breach will be decided by the court taking into account relevant matters prescribed by subsection 31(4) of the NGER Act, including 'the nature and extent of the contravention', 'the circumstances in which the contravention took place' and 'whether the person has previously been found by the Court in proceedings under this Act to have engaged in any similar conduct'.