Victorian Numbered Acts

FINES REFORM AND INFRINGEMENTS ACTS AMENDMENT ACT 2016 (NO. 29 OF 2016) - SECT 1

The main purposes of this Act are to amend the Fines Reform Act 2014 and the Infringements Act 2006 —

        (a)         to further provide for work and development permits; and

        (b)     to further provide for the ability of a person to apply for an order to serve a period of imprisonment in default of payment of outstanding fines under infringement warrants; and

        (c)     to provide for outstanding fines under infringement warrants against a person to be converted and for the making of an order in respect of any remaining amount of outstanding fines; and

        (d)     to provide for an amount of registered infringement fines against a person to be the subject of an application of the Director, Fines Victoria to the Magistrates' Court—

              (i)     for the making of an order that the person serve a period of imprisonment in default of payment of the amount of registered infringement fines; and

              (ii)     for an order in respect of any remaining amount of registered infringement fines; and

        (e)     to delay the commencement of the Fines Reform Act 2014 ; and

        (f)     to bring forward the commencement of some of the measures in the Fines Reform Act 2014 by including them in the Infringements Act 2006 ; and

        (g)     to harmonise court powers to deal with infringement offenders brought before the court; and

        (h)     to make other minor and consequential amendments to those and other Acts.