Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) If under
section 57A(3) a court makes a fine enforcement (WDO) order, notice of it must
be given to the Registrar.
(2) Within 28 days of
the making of the order the Registrar may apply for the order to be cancelled.
(3) The application
must be made in accordance with the regulations and must be served on the
offender concerned.
(4) On an application
by the Registrar, the court may cancel the order if it is satisfied, after
reconsidering the matters in section 57A(5A), that the order should not have
been made.
(5) If the court
cancels the order, the WDO made pursuant to it is to be taken to be cancelled
and the fine must be paid, and may be enforced, under the
Fines, Penalties and Infringement Notices Enforcement Act 1994 .
(6) If the court
cancels the order, then for the purposes of the Fines, Penalties and
Infringement Notices Enforcement Act 1994 the fine is to be taken to have been
imposed on the day when the order was cancelled.
(7) If a WDO has been
wholly or partially completed at the time it is to be taken to be cancelled
under subsection (5), the offender’s liability to pay the fine is to be
reduced in accordance with regulations made under the
Fines, Penalties and Infringement Notices Enforcement Act 1994 .
[Section 57B inserted: No. 9 of 2000 s. 10;
amended: No. 48 of 2012 s. 79; No. 25 of 2020 s. 130.]