Are there allowances for people with special circumstances?
• Yes. Special circumstances include: • mental or intellectual disability or disorder, disease or illness, or • a serious addiction to drugs, or alcoholvolatile substance that resulted in you being unable to understand or control the behaviour that resulted in an offence. Special circumstances also include homelessness which caused you to be unable to control the behaviour constituting the offence. Homelessness is defined in Regulation 7 of the Infringement (General) Regulations as: • the person is living in crisis accommodation • the person is living in transitional accommodation • the person is living in any other accommodation provided under the Supported Accommodation Assistance Act 1994 of the Commonwealth, or • the person has inadequate access to safe and secure housing as defined in section 4 of the Supported Accommodation Assistance Act 1994 of the Commonwealth. Where one or more of these conditions exist you may be eligible to have an infringement notice cancelled. For further
