It is a recommendation from the commissioner to the legislative assembly. The legislative assembly has a debate on it and votes on it. In this case, there was a unanimous agreement by members to accept the report of the commissioner, which included these particular fines. The commissioner explained in the report how he triaged the fines: an upper fine for the former premier—she received the highest fine on that—and then somewhat less for the other individuals.
The sanction—beyond the public sanction and public embarrassment, if you will, of litigating this in public—for these individuals was that the government could withhold or garnishee any outstanding wages, pensions and other kinds of payments that they were entitled to. So, if they did not pay the fine, then the government could take steps to basically withhold a portion of their pension or whatever it owed the individual for other things until the fine is paid off.