New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FINES ACT 1996 - SECT 102A

102A Liability of minors for enforcement costs

(1) The State Debt Recovery Office must waive the payment by a fine defaulter of any enforcement costs in respect of a fine enforcement order, other than the fee for the issue of a fine enforcement order, if the offence:

(a) in respect of which the fine concerned was imposed on the fine defaulter by a court, or

(b) in respect of which the penalty notice from which the fine concerned arises was served on the defendant,

occurred while the fine defaulter was under the age of 18 years.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply in respect of a fine enforcement order if one or more subsequent fine enforcement orders are made against the fine defaulter in respect of an offence that occurred when the fine defaulter was of or above the age of 18 years.