54Provision of current contact details

54 Provision of current contact details

(1) If an enforcement agency refers an infringement fine to the Director for management by a payment arrangement, the enforcement agency must provide the Director with the most up-to-date contact details of the person to whom the proposed payment arrangement is to apply.

S. 54(2) amended by No. 59/2017 s. 23.

(2) If a court makes an instalment order or a time to pay order when imposing a fine or a registered collection and enforcement order on a person and orders the court fine or the registered collection and enforcement order to be managed by the Director by a payment arrangement, the court must cause the Director to be provided with the most up-to-date contact details of the person to whom the proposed payment arrangement is to apply.

(3) It is sufficient compliance with subsection (1) or (2) if the enforcement agency or the court, as the case requires—

(a) requests the person to whom the payment arrangement is to apply to confirm the details of any address that the enforcement agency or the court has in its records for that person; and

(b) supplies the address confirmed in accordance with paragraph (a) to the Director when the agency makes the referral under subsection (1) or the court makes the order referred to in subsection (2).

(4) This section applies despite anything to the contrary in any Act or other instrument under which the enforcement agency or the court is established or operates.

S. 54(5) substituted by No. 17/2022 s. 13.

(5) The Director must notify an enforcement agency which referred an infringement fine in respect of a person to the Director for management by a payment arrangement or a court which makes an order referred to in subsection (2) of the last known address of the person to whom the payment arrangement applies if—

(a) the payment arrangement that applies to that person is cancelled under section 56; or

(b) that person—

(i) requests the removal of a fine from a payment arrangement under section 48; or

(ii) requests the cancellation of a payment arrangement under section 49.