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Planning and Urban Renewal—Standing Committee
Reference
MRS JONES (Murrumbidgee) (10.06): Pursuant to standing order 99, I move:
That the petition relating to the Coombs Peninsula be referred to the Standing Committee on Planning and Urban Renewal.
I will not speak further to any great extent. I simply say that because the two petitions, which have precisely the same wording, total well over 500 signatures, it is only right that a committee be able to look into this matter.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Magistrates Court (Infringement Notices) Amendment Bill 2019
Ms Le Couteur, pursuant to notice, presented the bill and its explanatory statement.
Title read by Clerk.
MS LE COUTEUR (Murrumbidgee) (10.08): I move:
That this bill be agreed to in principle.
This bill will amend the Magistrates Court Act 1930 and the Magistrates Court Regulation 2009. It provides a framework for a clear and transparent process for dealing with infringement notices. It will give people who have been issued with an infringement notice the opportunity to enter into an infringement notice management plan to enable them either to pay the infringement penalty by instalment or to participate in an approved community work plan or social development plan in lieu of paying the infringement penalty.
The bill also provides a formal mechanism for an infringement notice penalty to be waived. The purpose of the bill is to ensure that the payment system for infringement notice offences can take into account the circumstances of people who have been issued with infringement notices and who are on low incomes or are otherwise disadvantaged. I am hopeful that the changes this bill will introduce will result in more socially just outcomes for people who are issued with infringement notices and increase the amount of fines that are recovered by the territory.
This bill broadly mirrors the provisions of the Road Transport (General) (Infringement Notices) Amendment Bill, which was passed in the Assembly in 2012. This bill was introduced by my Greens colleague at the time, Amanda Bresnan. It applied to traffic and parking infringements. Here is what Simon Corbell, the then Minister for Police and Emergency Services and Attorney-General, had to say about the legislation at the time:
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