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Enforcement and other matters - Enforcement - Infringement offences

289: Infringement offences

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If you are alleged to have committed an infringement offence, you may be dealt with in two ways. You can be proceeded against by the filing of a charging document under section 14 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011. You can also be issued with an infringement notice under section 291. If proceedings are commenced against you in the first way, they do not need a District Court Judge or Registrar to give permission under section 21(1)(a) of the Summary Proceedings Act 1957. You should look at section 21 of the Summary Proceedings Act 1957 to see what happens if you are issued with an infringement notice. This will tell you what procedure applies in that situation.

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Enforcement: Infringement offences

289Infringement offences

  1. A person who is alleged to have committed an infringement offence may—

  2. be proceeded against by the filing of a charging document under section 14 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011; or
    1. be issued with an infringement notice under section 291.

      1. Proceedings commenced in the way described in subsection (1)(a) do not require the leave of a District Court Judge or Registrar under section 21(1)(a) of the Summary Proceedings Act 1957.

      2. See section 21 of the Summary Proceedings Act 1957 for the procedure that applies if an infringement notice is issued.