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GENE TECHNOLOGY ACT 2000 - SECT 18

No doubling - up of liabilities

  (1)   If:

  (a)   an act or omission is an offence against this Act and is also an offence against a corresponding State law; and

  (b)   the offender has been punished for the offence under the corresponding State law;

the offender is not liable to be punished for the offence under this Act.

  (2)   If a person has been ordered to pay a pecuniary penalty under a corresponding State law, the person is not liable to a pecuniary penalty under this Act in respect of the same conduct.


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