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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 13 Hansard (4 December) . . Page.. 4675 ..

MR HUMPHRIES (continuing)

approximately 6394 ACT offenders are in default of payment of 10,763 Parking Infringement Notices valued at $679,491. The extension of the fine default scheme to include all infringement notices will permit a consistent approach to be adopted for the recovery of outstanding fines to the Territory. It is not proposed that the application of the scheme to unpaid Infringement Notice penalties commence until the scheme has been established in relation to court imposed fines.

Mr Speaker I commend the Bill to the Assembly so that the Territory will, at last, have in place an effective scheme for encouraging payment of fines and penalties and for taking action to collect fines where offenders refuse to pay.

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