New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FINES ACT 1996 - SECT 51

51 Proceedings in Local Court after withdrawal or annulment of penalty notice enforcement order

(1) If a penalty notice enforcement order is withdrawn by the Commissioner and referred to the Local Court under section 47(2) or annulled by the Local Court under section 50, the Local Court is to hear and determine the matter as if no penalty notice enforcement order had been previously made.

(2) If the Local Court annuls the penalty notice enforcement order under section 50, the Local Court may proceed either immediately or at a later sitting of the Court to hear and determine the matter.

(4) For the purposes of hearing and determining the matter, a court attendance notice in relation to each alleged offence to which the penalty notice enforcement order relates is taken--

(a) to have been filed when the penalty notice enforcement order was made, and

(b) to have been filed by the appropriate officer for the penalty notice.