New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FINES ACT 1996 - SECT 80

80 Service and notice of order

(1) As soon as practicable after making a community service order under this Division, the State Debt Recovery Office must cause a copy of the order and written notice of the order to be served on the fine defaulter.

(2) The notice must be in the approved form and must include the following information:

(a) the place at which, or person to whom, the fine defaulter must present himself or herself, in person, for the purpose of enabling the administration of the order to be commenced,

(b) the period within which the fine defaulter must present himself or herself.

(3) Three copies of the notice must be served on the fine defaulter.

(4) The fine defaulter must sign 3 copies of the notice in the presence of the person by whom it was served. Of the copies:

(a) one is to be kept by the fine defaulter, and

(b) one is to be served by the person who served the notice on the fine defaulter on the Commissioner of Corrective Services or the Director-General of the Department of Juvenile Justice, whichever is appropriate, and is to be kept by the Commissioner or Director-General, as appropriate, and

(c) one is to be served by that person on, and kept by, the State Debt Recovery Office.

(5) A community service order is not invalidated by a failure to comply with this section or section 80A.