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INFRINGEMENTS ACT 2006 (NO 12 OF 2006) - SECT 46

Payment plans available in certain circumstances

    (1)     A natural person served with an infringement notice may apply to an enforcement agency for a payment plan to pay the infringement penalty and any prescribed costs in respect of the infringement offence to which the infringement notice relates.

    (2)     An application under sub-section (1) may be made—

        (a)     in the case of a lodgeable infringement offence, at any time before the infringement penalty is lodged with an infringements registrar under section 54 ; and

        (b)     in the case of any other infringement offence, at any time before the expiry of the period for bringing a proceeding in relation to the offence to which the infringement notice relates.

    (3)     An enforcement agency must offer a payment plan to a person who applies under sub-section (1) if the person meets the eligibility criteria set out in the guidelines.

    (4)     An enforcement agency may offer a payment plan to a person who applies under sub-section (1) if the enforcement agency decides, in its discretion, that the person should be offered a payment plan.

    (5)     An enforcement agency may offer a payment plan

        (a)     by arrangement and management of a payment plan for the person to whom it applies by that agency; or

        (b)     by referring the infringement penalty and prescribed costs in respect of any infringement offence to the Secretary for management by a payment plan.



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