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Section 161
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161. The minimum and maximum fines prescribed by this Act are doubled for a second offence and tripled for a third or subsequent offence.
In addition, if an offender commits an offence under a provision of this Act after having previously been found guilty of an offence under such a provision and if, without regard to the amounts prescribed for a subsequent offence, the minimum fine to which the offender was liable for the first offence was equal to or greater than the minimum fine prescribed for the second offence, the minimum and maximum fines become, if the prosecutor so requests, those prescribed in the case of a second offence or, if applicable, a third or subsequent offence.
This section applies where the prior findings of guilty were pronounced in the two-year period preceding the subsequent offence or, if the minimum fine to which the offender was liable for the prior offence was that prescribed in section 160, in the five-year period preceding the subsequent offence. Fines for a third or subsequent offence apply if the penalty imposed for the prior offence was the penalty for a second or subsequent offence.
