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penalty units

penalty units is the plural of penalty unit.

Meaning of penalty unit

Noun

penalty unit (plural penalty units)

  1. (Australia, criminal law) An amount of money, used as a basis of a penalty fine, which can be adjusted by the government without the need to pass new legislation.
    • In 1987 the Penalty Units and Other Penalties Act introduced a new scheme for financial penalties. The penalty provisions in a number of Acts containing commonly occurring offences were amended to specify the fine in penalty units rather than a specific sum. The value of a penalty unit is specified...2002, Kate Warner, Sentencing in Tasmania, page 124

Questions about penalty units

What is penalty units the plural of?
Penalty units is the plural of penalty unit.

Words near penalty units in the dictionary

  1. penalty tries
  2. penalty try
  3. penalty turn
  4. penalty turns
  5. penalty unit
  6. penalty units
  7. Penalver
  8. Penalvers
  9. Penal–Debe
  10. penam
  11. Penama

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