New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FINES ACT 1996 - SECT 3

3 Definitions

(1) In this Act:
"Act" includes a Code or other statutory provision of another jurisdiction that applies as a law of this State.
"appropriate officer" for a penalty notice-see section 22.
"approved form" means a form approved by the State Debt Recovery Office for the purposes of the provision in which the term is used.
"compensation levy" means a compensation levy payable under Part 5 of the Victims Support and Rehabilitation Act 1996 .
"court" means the Supreme Court, the Industrial Relations Commission, the Land and Environment Court, the District Court, the Local Court, the Children’s Court or any other court.
"court fine enforcement order" -see section 12.
"driver licence" means a driver licence under the Road Transport (Driver Licensing) Act 1998 .
"exercise" of a function includes the performance of a duty.
"fine" -see section 4.
"fine defaulter" means a person liable to pay a fine under a fine enforcement order.
"fine enforcement order" means a court fine enforcement order or a penalty notice enforcement order.
"function" includes a power, authority or duty.
"Hardship Review Board" means the Hardship Review Board constituted under section 101A.
"issuing agency", in relation to a penalty notice or official caution, means the agency in or by which the appropriate officer who issued the penalty notice or gave the caution is employed or engaged.
"law enforcement officer" means a person exercising law enforcement functions in the official capacity of any of the following:

(a) the Director of Public Prosecutions, a Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions or a Solicitor for Public Prosecutions,

(b) a Crown Prosecutor,

(c) a police officer,

(d) a public servant,

(e) an officer or employee of a statutory body representing the Crown,

(f) a member or an employee of a local council,

(g) an officer or employee of a livestock health and pest authority,

(h) an officer within the meaning of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1979 ,

(i) an officer or employee of a kind prescribed by the regulations.

"pay" a fine or amount means to pay the fine or amount in full by its due date and, if payment by instalments is permitted under this Act, includes to pay each instalment in full by its due date.
"penalty notice" -see section 20.
"penalty notice enforcement order" -see section 40.
"penalty notice offence" -see section 19A.
"person in receipt of a Government benefit" means:

(a) a person in receipt of a pension or other benefit paid by the Commonwealth being a pension or benefit of a kind approved by the State Debt Recovery Office, or

(b) a person belonging to a class of persons prescribed by the regulations.

"registered", in relation to a vehicle, means registered under the Road Transport (Vehicle Registration) Act 1997 .
"registered operator" has the same meaning as in the Road Transport (General) Act 2005 .
"responsible person" for a vehicle has the same meaning as in the Road Transport (General) Act 2005 .
"reviewing agency", in relation to a penalty notice, means the State Debt Recovery Office or the issuing agency.
"State Debt Recovery Office" means the State Debt Recovery Office established under Part 8.
"work and development order" -see section 99A.

(2) Notes in the text of this Act do not form part of this Act.