Fines and Infringement Notices in Victoria: Fines Victoria and Sanctions

Infringement notices

Many offences, including parking and driving offences, have fixed penalties. Those are issued as infringement notices. You may see the term Traffic Infringement Notice, which is one of the ways a licence or learner permit can be suspended or cancelled, alongside a court conviction, demerit points, Fines Victoria and VicRoads.

The Infringements Court

The role of the Infringements Court is to deal administratively with unpaid infringement notices. These offences generally have fixed penalties and include both parking and driving offences.

Fines Victoria

Fines Victoria is the single, central point of contact for people with outstanding fines. It collects and enforces infringements and court fines in Victoria, and was designed to make it simpler for people to deal with their fines.

Sanctions Fines Victoria can apply

If fines are not dealt with, Fines Victoria can apply sanctions to your registration, licence or vehicle status. These include:

• Suspending an individual's registration or licence.
• Not renewing registrations or licences.
• Not granting a registration or licence.
• Not allowing a person to drive other vehicles.
• Not letting a person replace or change number plates on vehicles.
• Cancelling the registration of company vehicles.

What it means for new drivers

A suspension or cancellation can break your continuous learner period or extend your probation. See penalties for learners and probationary drivers and suspension, cancellation and disqualification. Related pages: demerit points, parking rules and penalties overview.

Based on the Victorian Road to Solo Driving handbook and the VicRoads learner and probationary pages. Rules change from time to time, so check vicroads.vic.gov.au for the latest.