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Hi,

I've received an infringement offence notice of $200 for a parked vehicle that did not have the license label correctly affixed at the window. The label was indeed fixed to the window but was unfortunately facing the wrong way. This must have happened by accident.

The AT definition of this offence says: "Person operated a motor vehicle on a road when the current licence issued to the vehicle and appropriate for its use was not affixed to it in the manner prescribed."

Do I have a basis for not paying the fee as the car was not operated at the time the fee was issued? (i.e. it was just parked at the side of the road).

Or in any case could I ask them to only issue a warning, rather than having to pay the fee?

Thanks!

Hi there,
unfortunately any vehicle sitting on a public road is capable of receiving these kind of infringements.
The best coarse of action that I can see is to write in and include all the evidence/proof that the vehicle was infact licensed on the day and it was simply a case of the label being fitted backwards by mistake, in hope they will cancel the infringement.
It does seem a bit unreasonable to get an infringement for something trivial, but to defend it, you will need to prove that the label wasn't just fitted backwards because it was expired in hope that it wouldn't be noticed.