- Fines Act 1996 No 99
- Status information
- Long title
- Part 1 Preliminary
- Part 2 Fines imposed by courts
- Part 3 Penalty notices
- Division 1 Summary of penalty notice procedure
- Division 1A Official cautions
- Division 2 Penalty notices
- 20 What is a penalty notice?
- 21 Issue of penalty notices
- 22 Persons who may deal with penalty notices (appropriate officers)
- 22A Effect of payment under penalty notice
- 23 Amount payable under penalty notice
- 23AA Payment of fine before vehicle or vessel offence nomination made—payment by or for nominated person
- 23AB Payment of fine before vehicle or vessel offence nomination made—other cases
- 23A Person may elect to have matter dealt with by court
- 23B Completion of certain activities may be treated as payment
- 24 Failure to pay amount required by penalty notice
- Division 2A Internal review
- 24A Application for review of penalty notice
- 24B Circumstances when agency is not required to conduct a review
- 24C Review by reviewing agency
- 24D Request for additional information
- 24E Outcome of review
- 24F Action to be taken if decision to issue penalty notice is confirmed
- 24G Effect of withdrawal of penalty notice
- 24H Agency may review a decision on its own motion
- 24I (Repealed)
- 24J Reviewing agencies may enter into arrangements with respect to functions under Division
- Division 3 Penalty reminder notices
- 25 What is a penalty reminder notice?
- 26 When a penalty reminder notice may be sent
- 27 What a penalty reminder notice must say
- 28 Service of penalty reminder notices
- 29 Time for service of penalty reminder notices by post
- 30 Due date for payment in penalty reminder notices
- 31 Extension of due date if notice takes more than 7 days
- 32 Effect of penalty reminder notice on payment time in penalty notice
- 33 Payment under penalty reminder notice
- 34 Effect of payment under penalty reminder notice
- 35 Alleged offender’s right to elect to have matter dealt with by court
- 36 How a person may elect to have matter dealt with by court
- 37 Matter to proceed
- 37A Extension of time limit for taking proceedings if person has elected to have penalty notice matter dealt with by court
- 38 Circumstances in which person issued with penalty reminder notice for vehicle or vessel offence is not liable to pay penalty
- 39 Withdrawal of penalty reminder notices
- Division 4 Penalty notice enforcement orders
- 40 What is a penalty notice enforcement order?
- 41 How are penalty notice enforcement orders made?
- 42 When a penalty notice enforcement order may be made
- 43 Form of penalty notice enforcement order
- 44 Enforcement costs under penalty notice enforcement order
- 45 Effect of making, or of payment under, penalty notice enforcement order
- Division 5 Withdrawal and annulment of penalty notice enforcement orders
- 46 Application for withdrawal of penalty notice enforcement order
- 47 Grounds for withdrawal of penalty notice enforcement order
- 48–49A (Repealed)
- 50 Appeal against refusal to withdraw penalty notice enforcement order
- 51 Proceedings in Local Court after withdrawal or annulment of penalty notice enforcement order
- 52 Provisions relating to withdrawal and annulment of penalty notice enforcement orders
- Division 6 Application of Part
- Part 4 Fine enforcement action
- Division 1 Preliminary
- Division 2 Service of fine enforcement order
- Division 3 Licence and registration enforcement action
- Subdivision 1 Preliminary
- Subdivision 2 Suspension or cancellation of New South Wales driver licence or vehicle registration
- 66 Suspension or cancellation of driver licence
- 66A (Repealed)
- 67 Cancellation of vehicle registration
- 68 Suspension of dealings with Transport for NSW
- 69 Interim restoration or reinstatement of licence or registration pending appeal etc
- 69A (Repealed)
- 70 Effect of enforcement action on vehicle insurance
- Subdivision 3 Suspension of visitor driver and vehicle privileges
- Subdivision 4 Suspension or cancellation of New South Wales marine safety licence
- Division 4 Civil enforcement
- 71 When enforcement action taken under this Division
- 72 Order to seize property of fine defaulter
- 73 Order to garnishee debts, wages or salary of fine defaulter
- 74 Registration of fine enforcement order as charge on land
- 75 Examination of fine defaulter
- 75A Enforcement of order for examination
- 76 Power of entry to execute property seizure order
- 76A Sheriff’s additional costs of taking enforcement action under this Division
- 77 Cancellation of property seizure, garnishee order or charge on land
- 77A Garnishee order refunds in case of hardship
- Division 5 Orders requiring community service
- 78 When orders may be made
- 79 Making of order against fine defaulter
- 80 Service and notice of order
- 80A Provisions relating to service of orders and notice
- 81 Number of hours of community service work
- 82 Satisfaction of orders by payment
- 83 Satisfaction of fine by community service
- 84 Suspension of orders during imprisonment or detention
- 85 Provisions relating to orders
- 86 Revocation of order
- Division 6
- Division 7 Bodies corporate
- Division 8 Fine mitigation
- Subdivision 1 Work and development orders
- 99A Definitions
- 99B Making an order
- 99BA Assessments of eligibility for orders and keeping of records
- 99C Variation or revocation of order
- 99D No appeal except to Hardship Review Board
- 99E Satisfaction of order
- 99F Civil liability
- 99G Persons performing work under orders not workers
- 99H Delegation by approved persons
- 99I Work and development guidelines
- 99J Regulations
- 99K Orders may extend to State debt
- Subdivision 2 Time to pay and writing off fines
- Subdivision 3 Hardship Review Board
- Division 9 Miscellaneous
- Part 5 Reciprocal enforcement of fines against bodies corporate
- Part 5A Interstate fine enforcement
- Division 1 General
- Division 2 Enforcement of interstate fines in NSW
- 108C Power to make interstate fine enforcement orders
- 108D Effect of interstate fine enforcement order
- 108E Request for interstate fine enforcement order
- 108F Form of interstate fine enforcement order
- 108G Amendment or withdrawal of request for interstate fine enforcement order
- 108H Amendment or withdrawal of interstate fine enforcement orders
- 108I Effect of amendment or withdrawal of interstate fine enforcement orders
- 108J Enforcement costs payable under interstate fine enforcement orders
- 108K Application of amounts recovered
- 108L Modifications to application of Part 4
- Division 3 Enforcement of NSW fine enforcement orders in participating jurisdictions
- Division 4 Miscellaneous
- Part 6 Civil enforcement—costs and other payments
- Part 7 Enforcement of bail agreements
- Part 7A Enforcement of orders for restitution
- Part 8 Administration
- 113 Commissioner of Fines Administration
- 114 Functions of Commissioner
- 115 (Repealed)
- 116 Employees
- 116A Delegation
- 116B Exercise of enforcement functions
- 116C Personal liability
- 117 Access to information held by police and government agencies
- 117AA Access to information held by employers
- 117AB Access to and use of information held by credit reporting bodies
- 117AC Access to information held by authorised deposit-taking institutions
- 117A Disclosure of information by Commissioner
- 117B Confidentiality
- 117C (Repealed)
- 118 Registration of fine enforcement orders
- Part 9 Miscellaneous
- 119 Act binds Crown
- 119A Penalty notices under this Act
- 120 Guidelines on exercise of functions under this Act
- 121 Fines payable into Consolidated Fund
- 122 Payment of share of fine to prosecutor
- 122A Payment of law enforcement officers’ costs and expenses
- 122B Payment of penalty notice amounts received on behalf of others
- 122C Refunds and reallocation of overpayments
- 123 Remission of fines or other penalties
- 124 Royal prerogative preserved
- 125 Abolition of imprisonment as primary enforcement action for fine default
- 126 Abolition of recovery by distress
- 126A Penalty notices and penalty reminder notices sent to recently reported postal address and returned to sender
- 127 Proceedings for offences
- 128 Regulations
- 129 False or misleading information
- 130–132 (Repealed)
- Part 10
- Schedules 1, 2 (Repealed)
- Schedule 3 Savings, transitional and other provisions
- Historical notes
Fines Act 1996 No 99
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for 28 November 2023
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Does not include amendments by—
Fines Amendment Act 2019 No 13, Sch 1[2] [5]–[7] [56] and [57] (not commenced)
Fines Amendment Act 2019 No 13, Sch 1[2] [5]–[7] [56] and [57] (not commenced)
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Treasurer, jointly with the Minister for Finance, except parts; Part 2, Divisions 1 and 2 and sections 13, 120 (in so far as it relates to registrars of the courts and the Sheriff) and 123, the Attorney General
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