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An Administrative Monetary Penalty is a civil penalty imposed by a regulator for a contravention of an Act, regulation or by-law. It is issued upon discovery of an unlawful event, and is due and payable subject only to any rights of review that may be available under the AMP's implementing scheme. It is regulatory in nature, rather than criminal, and is intended to secure compliance with a regulatory scheme, and it can be employed with the use of other administrative sanctions, such as demerit points and license suspensions. ==Nature== AMPs differ from ordinary fines, such as those for parking tickets, in that, under the relevant legislation: #the AMP applies to a narrower segment of the general population (for example, a regulated industry); #imposing an AMP involves a number of steps, for instance, the person may first be given a warning and/or an opportunity to address the statutory decision-maker’s concerns (that is, to comply with the scheme); #the decision to impose an AMP is made by a senior official such as a Director or a person designated by that Director; #the criteria to guide the determination whether to impose and how to set the amount of an AMP is set out; #within those criteria, the person empowered to levy the penalty may be given significant discretion to decide whether to impose an AMP and to determine the appropriate amount of the AMP; and #the reconsideration or review/appeal of an AMP by the statutory decision-maker and/or an independent, specialized tribunalis allowed. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Administrative Monetary Penalty」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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