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Fines & infringements
This section provides important information about infringement notices and court fines and is designed to make paying your fines easy.
There are serious consequences for not paying fines in WA, including driver's licence suspension and imprisonment.
The Fines Enforcement Registry can be contacted on 1300 650 235 (Mobile/International Callers: (08) 9235 0235), between 8:30am to 4:30pm, Monday to Friday (except public holidays), or email fines@justice.wa.gov.au.
Alternatively, queries can be made in person at your nearest Magistrates Court.
The Fines Enforcement Registry actively enforces court fines and infringement notices referred to it by the courts and the various prosecuting authorities. The Registry does not play any role in imposing these court fines and infringements. The Registry uses various sanctions available to it to have offenders pay their outstanding fines.
The total value of unpaid court fines and infringements as at 31 December 2011 was $246 million.
This outstanding amount represents approximately 20 per cent of a total of $1.2 billion in fines and infringements which has been referred to FER since its inception and is down $6 million on the outstanding balance as at 30 June 2011 of $252 million.
This comprises $151 million in unpaid court fines and $95 million in unpaid infringements.
The Registry is actively enforcing the $246 million and $58.5 million of this amount is already being recovered through time-to-pay arrangements.
There were 722,417 unpaid fines as of 31 December 2011.
110,131 licence suspensions were initiated and 42,848 individual drivers had their licences suspended under fines enforcement laws in the last six months of 2011.
Last Updated: 1-Mar-2012
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