Australian Speeding Tickets...
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Hi to everybody.
I need a bit of advice.... whilst cruising around New South Wales, Australia, I have managed to pick up three minor speeding tickets which I refuse to pay. I return to England on 4th October 2010 and will be coming back to Australia sometime later that month for a further five weeks. My question is; will my unpaid speeding tickets hamper my return to or exit from Australia? Does anybody know how long it takes before such traffic offences are logged with immigration, if at all? If this was to be logged, would this apply in every state or would I just be blacklisted in New South Wales?
I would appreciate any advice and would like to hear from people with a similar experience. Thanks for your help!
Carlos
I need a bit of advice.... whilst cruising around New South Wales, Australia, I have managed to pick up three minor speeding tickets which I refuse to pay. I return to England on 4th October 2010 and will be coming back to Australia sometime later that month for a further five weeks. My question is; will my unpaid speeding tickets hamper my return to or exit from Australia? Does anybody know how long it takes before such traffic offences are logged with immigration, if at all? If this was to be logged, would this apply in every state or would I just be blacklisted in New South Wales?
I would appreciate any advice and would like to hear from people with a similar experience. Thanks for your help!
Carlos
I had one of these a few years ago. I paid up as a) the Aussie government are anal and quite hot on stuff like that, and b) I want to go back without being pulled to one side and told I owe them the fine plus interest, compounded.
In France they add 10% to an outstanding debt per month (compounded).. but they're too much of a bunch of disorganised f
kwits ever to do anything about it!
If you're never intending to go back, ignore it.
In France they add 10% to an outstanding debt per month (compounded).. but they're too much of a bunch of disorganised f
kwits ever to do anything about it!If you're never intending to go back, ignore it.
carlosanna said:
Hi to everybody.
I need a bit of advice.... whilst cruising around New South Wales, Australia, I have managed to pick up three minor speeding tickets which I refuse to pay. I return to England on 4th October 2010 and will be coming back to Australia sometime later that month for a further five weeks. My question is; will my unpaid speeding tickets hamper my return to or exit from Australia? Does anybody know how long it takes before such traffic offences are logged with immigration, if at all? If this was to be logged, would this apply in every state or would I just be blacklisted in New South Wales?
I would appreciate any advice and would like to hear from people with a similar experience. Thanks for your help!
Carlos
A very good friend of mine racked up 5 tickets for speeding in Australia while he was there for 3 weeks holiday I need a bit of advice.... whilst cruising around New South Wales, Australia, I have managed to pick up three minor speeding tickets which I refuse to pay. I return to England on 4th October 2010 and will be coming back to Australia sometime later that month for a further five weeks. My question is; will my unpaid speeding tickets hamper my return to or exit from Australia? Does anybody know how long it takes before such traffic offences are logged with immigration, if at all? If this was to be logged, would this apply in every state or would I just be blacklisted in New South Wales?
I would appreciate any advice and would like to hear from people with a similar experience. Thanks for your help!
Carlos
(~thought you might have been him actually lol~) he never paid themthis was about 4 years ago. he has heard nothing since
if you want/need further details I'll give him a ring for you
Don't pay. No need to and can't be enforced.
Before anything is lodged in "the system" there is a process the police have to follow. Eventually it ends up with the courts who then try and enforce it..........by sending invoices to your home address.
Possibly, in theory, immigration could be told, but that process would take some months at the very least, by which time I assume you would be long gone from Oz.
Some sort of ticket from Australia found its wy to me here in New Zealand. Police did well as I used my UK driving licence to hire a car, and I had emigrated eight years before.
The begging letters said something about they MUST be returned if undelivered within a certain time. All of them were ignored, nothing happened.
Before anything is lodged in "the system" there is a process the police have to follow. Eventually it ends up with the courts who then try and enforce it..........by sending invoices to your home address.
Possibly, in theory, immigration could be told, but that process would take some months at the very least, by which time I assume you would be long gone from Oz.
Some sort of ticket from Australia found its wy to me here in New Zealand. Police did well as I used my UK driving licence to hire a car, and I had emigrated eight years before.
The begging letters said something about they MUST be returned if undelivered within a certain time. All of them were ignored, nothing happened.
its VERY easy to get booked for speeding in OZ, the cops are always hiding somewhere, if you are doing more than 40KPH over the speed limit its instant loss of licence (thats if you are an Ozzie), for overseas visitors it would be a big fine and maybe a court appearance. I dont think they enforce overdue fines through immigration, of course if you had a hire car it will go back to the hire car company and they will charge your credit card.
Do they still have the billboards in Oz with "1k over, 6ft under" written on them? Made me laugh when I was there.
I drove from Cairns to Sydney with some friends and one saw one police car on the road through the whole of Queensland. As soon as we crossed the NSW boarder, there was a police speed check!
I drove from Cairns to Sydney with some friends and one saw one police car on the road through the whole of Queensland. As soon as we crossed the NSW boarder, there was a police speed check!
randomwalk said:
its VERY easy to get booked for speeding in OZ, the cops are always hiding somewhere, if you are doing more than 40KPH over the speed limit its instant loss of licence (thats if you are an Ozzie), for overseas visitors it would be a big fine and maybe a court appearance. I dont think they enforce overdue fines through immigration, of course if you had a hire car it will go back to the hire car company and they will charge your credit card.
No, the credit card company can't charge your card. Even if they try and put administration charges on, have them reversed as an unauthorized transaction.In the extremely unlikely event the OP goes back into OZ and has any sort of problem - fill in forms to say you were never sent any paperwork. Australia an New Zealand work on Reminders. No, Reminder received, no liability. If you are really lucky you may get another Reminder - file it in the bin.
New Zealand is running over a year behind in even attempting to collect speeding fines from residents - do you really think they are going to bother about visitors? I would suspect they are amazed when somebody sends money from abroad.
To utilise their own terms.
Chuck 'em a brown eye, and tell 'em you don't give a rat's ass.
Why would you want to go back to Australia, unless you left something over there by accident?
A inhospitable baron land with nasty poisonous critters, and that's just the politicians, that's only claims to world admiration are Holden Commodores (and their variants), Marcos Ambrose, Mick Doohan, Rolf Harris, and Paul Hogan. The rest of it is crap. Perhaps with the exception of the Wilson family of Cargoolie, and Nigel.
Can you see what it is yet?
Don't pay, then they won't be able to give your money to some aborigine so he can by more woobla, and another FJ.
Chuck 'em a brown eye, and tell 'em you don't give a rat's ass.
Why would you want to go back to Australia, unless you left something over there by accident?
A inhospitable baron land with nasty poisonous critters, and that's just the politicians, that's only claims to world admiration are Holden Commodores (and their variants), Marcos Ambrose, Mick Doohan, Rolf Harris, and Paul Hogan. The rest of it is crap. Perhaps with the exception of the Wilson family of Cargoolie, and Nigel.
Can you see what it is yet?
Don't pay, then they won't be able to give your money to some aborigine so he can by more woobla, and another FJ.
Colonial said:
Few questions.
Hire car or own car?
Where they mobile speed camera tickets, or were you pulled over by the Highway patrol?
What sort of speed are we talking about?
Do they have your contact details?
It was a hire car. I have one mobile speed camera ticket (letter sent to English address) and two instances where I was pulled over by the cops. I was doing less than 20km/hr over on all three instances. And yes, they do have my name and address, as taken from my driving licence. Would appreciate your thoughts Hire car or own car?
Where they mobile speed camera tickets, or were you pulled over by the Highway patrol?
What sort of speed are we talking about?
Do they have your contact details?
)y2blade said:
carlosanna said:
Hi to everybody.
I need a bit of advice.... whilst cruising around New South Wales, Australia, I have managed to pick up three minor speeding tickets which I refuse to pay. I return to England on 4th October 2010 and will be coming back to Australia sometime later that month for a further five weeks. My question is; will my unpaid speeding tickets hamper my return to or exit from Australia? Does anybody know how long it takes before such traffic offences are logged with immigration, if at all? If this was to be logged, would this apply in every state or would I just be blacklisted in New South Wales?
I would appreciate any advice and would like to hear from people with a similar experience. Thanks for your help!
Carlos
A very good friend of mine racked up 5 tickets for speeding in Australia while he was there for 3 weeks holiday I need a bit of advice.... whilst cruising around New South Wales, Australia, I have managed to pick up three minor speeding tickets which I refuse to pay. I return to England on 4th October 2010 and will be coming back to Australia sometime later that month for a further five weeks. My question is; will my unpaid speeding tickets hamper my return to or exit from Australia? Does anybody know how long it takes before such traffic offences are logged with immigration, if at all? If this was to be logged, would this apply in every state or would I just be blacklisted in New South Wales?
I would appreciate any advice and would like to hear from people with a similar experience. Thanks for your help!
Carlos
(~thought you might have been him actually lol~) he never paid themthis was about 4 years ago. he has heard nothing since
if you want/need further details I'll give him a ring for you
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