statutory penalty definition
statutory penalty. , in relation to an offence, means the penalty specified by a written law for the offence;
statutory penalty for an offence, means the penalty specified by a written law for the offence;
statutory penalty means the penalty specified by a written law for the offence. There we are. The maximum statutory penalty is prescribed in legislation, and that is what a court must have regard to, in addition to considering aggravating factors, mitigating factors and so on. However, in direct response to the mover of the amendment, the point is that the court will have the maximum statutory penalty available to it, and it is a mischief to suggest that this amendment is needed for the court to have access to that maximum penalty, if the court wishes to exercise it. The advice available to me is that the proposed amendment adds nothing to the existing statutory framework and is unnecessary. As I have already indicated, it is undesirable to have provisions that do not really do anything, because they might do something—something unexpected.
More Definitions of statutory penalty
statutory penalty for an offence, means the penalty specified
statutory penalty means a penalty provided for in section 21 of the Act of 2022;