Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The regulations may make provision enabling a person who is alleged to have committed an offence of strict liability against this Division to do both of the following as an alternative to prosecution:
(a) pay a penalty to the Commonwealth;
(b) forfeit to the Commonwealth:
(i) each article (if any) that is alleged to be an infringing copy of a work or other subject - matter and that is alleged to have been involved in the commission of the offence; and
(ii) each device (if any) that is alleged to have been made to be used for making an infringing copy of a work or other subject - matter and that is alleged to have been involved in the commission of the offence.
Note: Regulations made for this purpose will make provision to the effect that a prosecution of an alleged offender will be avoided if the alleged offender both pays a penalty to the Commonwealth and forfeits to the Commonwealth all relevant articles and devices (if any).
(2) The penalty must equal one - fifth of the maximum fine that a court could impose on the person as a penalty for that offence.