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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 7 Hansard (26 June) . . Page.. 2316 ..

STANDING COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC ACCOUNTS REVIEW OF THE

AUDITOR GENERAL'S REPORT NO 6, 1996 - COLLECTION OF

COURT FINES

GOVERNMENT RESPONSE.

I am pleased to table the Government Response to the review by the Standing Committee on Public Accounts of the Auditor General's Report No 6, 1996 - Collection of Court Fines.

The Standing Committee on Public Accounts has noted that the majority of issues of concern identified by the audit have already been or are being addressed. I therefore propose to confine my remarks to those matters which the Standing Committee on Public Accounts identified as unresolved or only partly addressed and requiring a further response from the Government.

The areas in respect of which the Committee sought further information are:

. the collection of fines from interstate offenders;

. completion of the criminal case management component of the Case Management System in the Supreme Court; and

. the amendment of legislation to enable new fine default recovery mechanisms to be administered by the Registrar of the Magistrates Court.

. details of the amount of fines outstanding.

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