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The objective of these Regulations is to prescribe—
fees, costs and charges payable under the Infringements Act 2006; and
details that must be included in documents relating to infringement notices in the pre‑enforcement stage under that Act; and
the information that enforcement agencies must provide to the Attorney-General under that Act; and
other matters required or permitted to be prescribed under that Act.
These Regulations are made under section 168 of the Infringements Act 2006.
These Regulations come into operation on 6 June 2026.
The following Regulations are revoked—
the Infringements Regulations 2016[1];
the Infringements Amendment Regulations 2016[2];
the Infringements Amendment Regulations 2017[3].
In these Regulations—
parking infringement has the same meaning as it has in the Road Safety Act 1986;
the Act means the Infringements Act 2006.
For the purposes of paragraph (c) of the definition of enforcement agency in section 3(1) of the Act, a prescribed person or body or person or body in a prescribed class of person or body is specified in Schedule 1.
For the purposes of paragraph (c) of the definition of special circumstances in section 3A(1) of the Act, the prescribed criteria for determining that a person is homeless is that the person satisfies at least one of the following—
the person is living in crisis accommodation;
the person is living in transitional accommodation;
the person is living in any other accommodation provided under the Supported Accommodation Assistance Act 1994 of the Commonwealth;
the person has inadequate access to safe and secure housing within the meaning of section 4(2) of the Supported Accommodation Assistance Act 1994 of the Commonwealth.
For the purposes of section 6 of the Act, the following information is prescribed until 30 June 2026—
the number of official warnings served by the enforcement agency in relation to each category of infringement offence;
the number of official warnings withdrawn by the enforcement agency in relation to each category of infringement offence;
the number of infringement notices served by the enforcement agency in relation to each category of infringement offence;
the number of infringement notices withdrawn by the enforcement agency in relation to each category of infringement offence;
in relation to each category of infringement offence, the number of persons served with an infringement notice who elect, under section 16(1) of the Act, to have the matter of the infringement offence heard and determined in the Court or the Children's Court;
in relation to each category of infringement offence, the following—
the number of applications for internal review received by the enforcement agency under each of the grounds in section 22(1) of the Act;
as far as practicable, in relation to the information provided under subparagraph (i), the number of applications for internal review decided in accordance with section 25(1)(a) to (h) or 25(2)(a) to (c) of the Act, as the case may be;
as far as practicable, in relation to decisions made under section 25(1)(h) of the Act, the relevant combination of actions taken;
as far as practicable, in relation to decisions made under section 25(2A) of the Act, whether the decision was to grant or refuse the application;
the number of applications for payment plans received by the enforcement agency under section 46(1) of the Act, and, as far as practicable—
the total number of payment plans offered under section 46(3) and (4) of the Act; and
in relation to payment plans offered under section 46(3) or (4) of the Act, the total number of payment plans commenced in accordance with section 48 of the Act; and
in relation to commenced payment plans, the number of persons sent written notice advising of default under section 52 of the Act.
For the purposes of section 6 of the Act, the following information is prescribed on and after 1 July 2026—
the number of official warnings served by the enforcement agency in relation to each category of infringement offence;
the number of official warnings withdrawn by the enforcement agency in relation to each category of infringement offence;
the number of infringement notices served by the enforcement agency in relation to each category of infringement offence;
the number of infringement notices withdrawn by the enforcement agency in relation to each category of infringement offence;
for each category of infringement offence, the number of persons served with an infringement notice who elect, under section 16 of the Act, to have the matter of the infringement offence heard and determined in the Court or the Children's Court;
for each category of infringement offence in respect of which the enforcement agency served an infringement notice, the number of times the enforcement agency referred a matter to—
the Court under section 17(1) of the Act; or
the Children's Court under section 17(3) of the Act; or
either the Court or the Children's Court under section 25(1)(d) of the Act;
for each category of infringement offence in respect of which the enforcement agency served an infringement notice, the number of times the enforcement agency referred a matter to the Court under section 21(1)(c) of the Fines Reform Act 2014 or under section 38(1)(a)(iii) of the Fines Reform Act 2014 or after an enforcement cancellation in the circumstances referred to in section 38(2) of the Fines Reform Act 2014;
for each category of infringement offence in respect of which the enforcement agency issued an infringement notice, the following—
the number of infringement notices included in applications for internal review received by the enforcement agency for each of the grounds in section 22(1) of the Act;
as far as practicable, in relation to the information provided under subparagraph (i), the number of infringement notices included in applications for internal review decided in accordance with section 25(1)(a) to (h) or 25(2)(a) to (c) of the Act (as the case may be);
as far as practicable, in relation to decisions made under section 25(1)(h) of the Act, the relevant combination of actions taken;
as far as practicable, in relation to decisions made under section 25(2A) of the Act, whether the decision was to grant or refuse the application;
the number of times the enforcement agency requested additional information under section 23(1) of the Act in response to an application for internal review received by the enforcement agency under section 22(1) of the Act;
the number of applications for payment plans received by the enforcement agency under section 46(1) or (1A) of the Act and, as far as practicable—
the total number of payment plans offered under section 46(3) and (4) of the Act; and
in relation to payment plans offered under section 46(3) and (4) of the Act, the total number of payment plans commenced in accordance with section 48 of the Act; and
in relation to commenced payment plans, the number of persons sent written notice advising of default under section 52(2) of the Act;
the number of infringement fines paid in full before—
the fine becomes eligible for registration with the Director, Fines Victoria for enforcement under the Fines Reform Act 2014 (or, in the case of infringement offences that are non‑registrable infringement offences, would have become eligible for registration if it was not a non‑registrable infringement offence); or
the fine becomes eligible for registration under Schedule 3 to the Children, Youth and Families Act 2005.
For the purposes of section 6(a) of the Act, the prescribed intervals are 6 months.
For the purposes of the definition of penalty reminder notice fee in section 3(1) of the Act, the prescribed penalty reminder notice fee is 1·74 fee units.
The following persons are exempt from the penalty reminder notice fee specified in regulation 9—
a police officer acting in the course of the officer's duty;
a person acting for or by authority of the Crown.
Despite subregulation (1), any fee that would otherwise be payable under regulation 9 is payable by the person who is liable to pay the infringement penalty to which the prescribed fee relates.
For the purposes of section 8(2) of the Act, the prescribed details are the following—
that it is an official warning;
the date of the official warning;
the name and address (if known) of the person served with the official warning;
the name of the enforcement agency;
the enforcement agency's identifying reference of the official warning;
either—
the name of the issuing officer; or
the enforcement agency's identifying reference of the issuing officer;
the date and approximate time and place of the infringement offence alleged to have been committed;
the Act or other instrument that creates the infringement offence and a brief description of the infringement offence alleged to have been committed;
that further information may be obtained from at least one of the following—
a nominated telephone number;
a specified address;
a specified website.
For the purposes of section 11(2) of the Act, the prescribed period is 6 months from the date of service of the official warning.
For the purposes of section 11(4)(b) of the Act, the prescribed details are the following—
that it is a withdrawal of the official warning;
the date of the withdrawal of the official warning;
the name and address (if known) of the person served with the withdrawal of the official warning;
the name of the enforcement agency;
the enforcement agency's identifying reference of the official warning;
the date and approximate time and place of the infringement offence alleged to have been committed;
the Act or other instrument that creates the infringement offence and a brief description of the infringement offence alleged to have been committed;
a statement of how the enforcement agency intends to proceed in respect of the infringement offence alleged to have been committed.