Victorian Numbered Acts

FINES REFORM ACT 2014 (NO. 47 OF 2014) - SECT 119

    (1)     A person authorised to execute an enforcement warrant against a fine defaulter who is a natural person must not take any step to execute the enforcement warrant under this Part unless—

        (a)     that person or another person has served on the fine defaulter in respect of whom the enforcement warrant has been issued a seven-day notice containing the prescribed details; and

Note

See Division 2 of Part 15 for service requirements.

        (b)     if the person authorised to execute an enforcement warrant is the sheriff, the sheriff has made a demand on the fine defaulter in respect of whom the enforcement warrant has been issued.

    (2)     If a seven-day notice is served on a fine defaulter by a person other than the sheriff, a demand for payment is not to be made at the time of service of the seven-day notice.

    (3)     A seven-day notice must include a warning that, on the expiry of 7 days, the enforcement warrant may be executed and the fine defaulter arrested or the property of the fine defaulter seized unless the fine defaulter has—

        (a)     paid the registered fine; or

        (b)     applied for an enforcement review; or

        (c)     made a payment arrangement.