Victorian Numbered Acts

FINES REFORM ACT 2014 (NO. 47 OF 2014) - SECT 171

    (1)     Despite any provision (except section 26) of the Imprisonment of Fraudulent Debtors Act 1958 to the contrary or anything in any enforcement warrant, if an infringement offender is imprisoned under a warrant to imprison issued under section 68 of the Magistrates' Court Act 1989 —

        (a)     the whole or any part of any registered infringement fine may be paid by or on behalf of the infringement offender to the officer in charge of the prison or police gaol in which the infringement offender is detained; and

        (b)     the officer in charge must receive the payment and forward it without delay to the registrar.

    (2)     An infringement offender who is in custody in respect of any registered infringement fine and for no other matter must be released from custody, if the officer in charge of the prison or the police gaol in which the infringement offender is imprisoned is paid—

        (a)     the whole amount of the registered infringement fine; or

        (b)     the amount of the registered infringement fine remaining to be paid.

    (3)     If part of the registered infringement fine is paid to the officer in charge of the prison or police gaol by or on behalf of the infringement offender who is imprisoned—

        (a)     the officer in charge must—

              (i)     amend the execution copy of the warrant to imprison; and

              (ii)     receive the payment and forward it without delay to a registrar; and

        (b)     at the end of the reduced term, the infringement offender who is imprisoned must be discharged if the infringement offender is in custody for no other matter.