Western Australia
Fines, Penalties and Infringement Notices Enforcement Amendment (Compensation) Act 2009
CONTENTS
1. Short title 2
2. Commencement 2
3. Act amended 2
4. Section 108A inserted 2
108A. Credit for punishment served in error 2
Western Australia
Fines, Penalties and Infringement Notices Enforcement Amendment (Compensation) Act 2009
No. 4 of 2009
An Act to amend the Fines, Penalties and Infringement Notices Enforcement Act 1994.
[Assented to 14 May 2009]
The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:
1. Short title
This is the Fines, Penalties and Infringement Notices Enforcement Amendment (Compensation) Act 2009.
2. Commencement
This Act comes into operation as follows —
(a) sections 1 and 2 — on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent;
(b) the rest of the Act — on a day fixed by proclamation.
3. Act amended
This Act amends the Fines, Penalties and Infringement Notices Enforcement Act 1994.
4. Section 108A inserted
After section 107 insert:
108A. Credit for punishment served in error
(1) This section applies if, because of an error in administering this Act, a person (the offender) liable to punishment described in subsection (2) is punished for longer than is provided for by law.
(2) The punishment referred to in subsection (1) is —
(a) imprisonment under a warrant of commitment issued under section 53; or
(b) community corrections activities done under a work and development order made under section 48.
(3) This section applies whether the error was made, or the person was punished, before or after the day on which the Fines, Penalties and Infringement Notices Enforcement Amendment (Compensation) Act 2009 section 4 comes into operation.
(4) The Registrar may credit the offender with an amount of money calculated at the rate that, when the amount is credited, applies for working out the time for which an offender is to be imprisoned or do community corrections activities.
(5) The Registrar may —
(a) pay the amount credited to the offender; or
(b) offset the whole or any part of it against any amount that the offender owes for, or because of, a fine registered under section 41(1); or
(c) in circumstances described in subsection (6), apply the whole or any part of it to payment of the whole or any part of the modified penalty and enforcement fees payable in respect of an infringement notice registered under section 16.
(6) The Registrar may apply an amount in accordance with subsection (5)(c) if —
(a) under section 18(1), the Registrar could, in respect of the infringement notice, issue a notice of intention to suspend licences; or
(b) the Registrar has issued a notice of that kind and the alleged offender has not made an election under section 21.
(7) Whether or not the Registrar gives the offender a credit under this section, the State is not liable in respect of punishment inflicted as a result of the error.
