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- Warrant of commitment and imprisonment
- What options do you have if you receive a warrant of commitment?
- Clients who are in prison
Warrant of commitment and imprisonment
If you fail to complete the hours of the community service order and you have not paid the outstanding balance, we can issue a warrant of commitment.
If a warrant of commitment is issued you will have seven days to pay all your outstanding enforcement orders in full.
If you fail to pay you will be arrested and imprisoned. For each day served in custody, your enforcement orders will be reduced by $120.
What options do you have if you receive a warrant of commitment?
You can:
- Pay in full within 7 days
- Request a review of the enforcement order
Clients who are in prison
If you are in custody and send us an inmate request form we will put your fines on hold.
The hold is applied only when the form is received and will not reverse any costs or action already taken to recover the outstanding fines.
The hold remains in place for three months after your release date. This provides you with time to adjust back into society and to organise to either to pay your fines in full or apply for time to pay by instalments.
If you get more fines after submitting the form, contact us to request to have the fines placed on hold, or submit another form.
When completing the inmate request form, you should include any alias names and any previous addresses you have had so that we can locate all of your outstanding fines.
If you are not released and either fail to get paroled or receive an additional sentence you should notify us of your actual release date so that the hold can remain in place.
