Victorian Numbered Acts Victorian Numbered ActsAfter clause 6 of Schedule 2 to the Magistrates' Court Act 1989 insert —
Without limiting any other power of the Court, in the case of any lodgeable infringement offence within the meaning of the Infringements Act 2006 in respect of which an election to have the matter of the offence heard and determined in Court under Part 2 or Part 4 of that Act has been made or an order under section 72(1) of that Act has been made, if the defendant fails to appear and the Court proceeds to hear and determine the charge in the defendant's absence under section 41(2) or (3), the Court may hear and determine the charge based on the prescribed information lodged under section 40(1)(a) or 71(1)(a) of that Act (as the case requires).".