Month: August 2015

Need Assistance with Traffic Infringement Notice?

Traffic Infringement Notice

Competent Legal Counsel can provide Guidance

Traffic infringements occur when an individual is found to perform an action that contravenes traffic laws or regulations. Reliable criminal lawyers can help guide and assist you if you are served with penalty notices and so on. Traffic offences that are considered minor are not associated with the penalty imprisonment. If you commit a minor traffic offence, you are issued with what is known as a TIN or Traffic Infringement notice. Such offences require an expiation fee to be paid within twenty-eight days of committing the offence and are resolved in the court. Once the offender pays the expiation fee, he or she is no longer liable for any further prosecution for that specific offence.

In case, the offender fails to pay the expiation fee, they will be served with a reminder notice where an additional fee will be added to the original expiation fee. However, under hardship conditions (if the offender is genuinely found to be in difficult financial conditions), the court may allow one or more of the following payment arrangements to be implemented:

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