Victorian Numbered Acts

JUSTICE LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (FINES REFORM AND OTHER MATTERS) ACT 2022 (NO. 17 OF 2022) - SECT 1

The main purposes of this Act are—

        (a)     to amend the Fines Reform Act 2014 and the Infringements Act 2006 to implement recommendations made by the Fines Reform Advisory Board following its review of the Fines Reform Act 2014 ; and

        (b)     to amend the Sentencing Act 1991 —

              (i)     to harmonise provisions in that Act in relation to the time served scheme with similar provisions in the Fines Reform Act 2014 ; and

              (ii)     to make miscellaneous and technical amendments; and

        (c)     to amend the Sheriff Act 2009 in relation to warrants and other miscellaneous matters; and

        (d)     to amend the EastLink Project Act 2004 , the Melbourne City Link Act 1995 , the North East Link Act 2020 and the West Gate Tunnel (Truck Bans and Traffic Management) Act 2019 to enable a toll road operator to withdraw a request for the enforcement agency to serve an infringement notice in respect of an unpaid toll and to make other miscellaneous amendments; and

        (e)     to make fine and infringement related, miscellaneous and consequential amendments to the Magistrates' Court Act 1989 , the Road Safety Act 1986 , the Taxation Administration Act 1997 and the Transfer of Land Act 1958 .