Victorian Numbered Acts

FINES REFORM ACT 2014 (NO. 47 OF 2014) - SECT 185

    (1)     The Governor in Council may make regulations for or with respect to—

        (a)     prescribing non-registrable infringement offences or classes of non-registrable infringement offences; and

        (b)     prescribing for the purposes of Part 7 the type of information that can be sought and the circumstances in which, and the persons from whom, information can be sought; and

        (c)     prescribing persons or classes of persons for the purposes of making applications for attachment of earnings directions or attachment of debt directions; and

        (d)     prescribing the practice and procedure in relation to applications for attachment of earnings directions and attachment of debts directions, including variation, discharge or suspension of those directions; and

        (e)     prescribing the protected level of income for the purposes of an attachment of earnings direction; and

        (f)     the fees, costs and charges payable in respect of the execution by the sheriff of any enforcement warrant; and

        (g)     the fees, costs and charges payable in respect of the exercise by the Director of any power or function of the Director under this Act; and

        (h)     other fees, costs and charges under this Act; and

              (i)     without limiting any power to make regulations conferred by any other paragraph, the fees, costs and charges payable in respect of—

              (i)     the issue or execution of an enforcement warrant; or

              (ii)     the amendment, alteration or variation of an enforcement warrant; or

              (iii)     the supply of a duplicate copy of an enforcement warrant; and

        (j)     prescribing conditions for grants of community work permits, the release of persons on community work permits and procedures for the purposes of Part 13, including, but not limited to the following—
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              (i)     the commencement of community work permits;

              (ii)     the matters to be specified in community work permits;

              (iii)     the supply of copies of community work permits to specified persons;

              (iv)     the obligations of persons subject to community work permits;

              (v)     the payment of fines by or on behalf of a person required to perform unpaid community work under a community work permit; and

        (k)     prescribing for the purposes of section 183, the exercise of powers, functions and duties; and

        (l)     generally any matter or thing required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed or necessary to be prescribed to give effect to this Act.

    (2)     A power conferred by subsection (1) to make regulations providing for the imposition of fees may be exercised by providing for all or any of the following matters—

        (a)     specific fees;

        (b)     maximum fees;

        (c)     minimum fees;

        (d)     fees that vary according to value or time;

        (e)     the manner of payment of fees;

        (f)     the time or times at which fees are to be paid.

    (3)     Regulations made under this Act may—

        (a)     be of general or limited application;

        (b)     differ according to differences in time, place or circumstance;

        (c)     confer a discretionary authority or impose a duty on—

              (i)     a specified person or body; or

              (ii)     a specified class of person or body;

        (d)     provide in a specified case or class of case for the exemption of persons or things or a class of persons or things from any of the provisions of the regulations—

              (i)     whether unconditionally or on specified conditions; and

              (ii)     either wholly or to such an extent as is specified.

    (4)     Without limiting subsection (3) or the powers of the Director under section 9, if the regulations provide for a reduction, waiver or refund, in whole or in part, of a fee, cost or charge pursuant to subsection (3), the reduction, waiver or refund—

        (a)     may be expressed to apply either generally or specifically—

              (i)     in respect of certain matters or classes of matters;

              (ii)     in respect of certain persons or classes of persons;

              (iii)     in respect of a specified class of infringement offence, including offences committed before or after the commencement of the regulations providing for the reduction, waiver or refund, in whole or in part, of the fees, costs and charges;

              (iv)     in respect of a specified enforcement agency or class of enforcement agency;

              (v)     for a specified period or periods or from a specified commencement date to a specified expiry date;

              (vi)     in respect of any combination of the matters referred to in subparagraphs (i) to (v);

        (b)     may be subject to specified conditions.

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