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Land Transport Act 1993  088
Commenced: 20 Aug 1993
IV: Miscellaneous Provisions
Offences
32   Infringement notices




   32. Infringement notices---(1) Where the Director or any person duly
 authorised by the Director, or any constable or traffic officer,
 observes a person committing an infringement offence or has reasonable
 cause to believe such an offence is being or has been committed by that
 person, an infringement notice in respect of that offence may be issued
 to that person by the Director or the authorised person.

   (2) An infringement notice may be served---
   (a) By delivering it personally to the person who appears to have
         committed the infringement offence; or
   (b) By sending it by post addressed to him or her at his or her last
         known place of residence or business; or
   (c) Where the person is a holder of a land transport document, by
         serving it by post on that person at his or her last address for
         service provided for the purposes of that document.

   (3) For the purposes of the Summary Proceedings Act 1957, an
 infringement notice sent to a person by post under paragraph (b) or
 paragraph (c) of subsection (2) of this section shall be deemed to have
 been served on the person when it would have been delivered in the
 ordinary course of post.

   (4) Every infringement notice shall be in the prescribed form and
 shall contain the following particulars:
   (a) Such details of the alleged infringement offence as are sufficient
         fairly to inform a person of the time, place, and nature of the
         alleged offence:
   (b) The amount of the infringement fee for that offence:
   (c) The address at which the infringement fee may be paid:
   (d) The time within which the infringement fee shall be paid:
   (e) A summary of the provisions of section 21 (10) of the Summary
         Proceedings Act 1957:
   (f) A statement of the right of the person served with the notice to
         request a hearing:
   (g) A statement of the consequences if the person served with the
         notice does not pay the infringement fee and does not make a
         request for a hearing:
   (h) Such other particulars as are prescribed in regulations made under
         this Act.

   (5) Different forms of infringement notices may be prescribed in
 regulations made under this Act in respect of different kinds of
 infringement offences.

   (6) Where an infringement notice has been issued under this section,
 proceedings in respect of the offence to which the notice relates may be
 commenced in accordance with section 21 of the Summary Proceedings Act
 1957, and in that case the provisions of that section shall, with the
 necessary modifications, apply.
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