Road offences and their penalties
This is the penalty schedule of the Land Transport (Offences and Penalties) Regulations 1999, rendered from the payload rather than retyped. Four columns, never merged — a maximum on conviction and an infringement fee, each crossed by individual and body corporate — because they are four different facts about one offence.
Speeding
The speeding fee ladder, and where it stops
The one schedule in this instrument that nearly every reader wants, and the one place the catalogue has a hard edge worth stating.
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| How far over the limit | Infringement fee | Demerit points | Roadside suspension | Band |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| not more than 10 km an hour1–10 km/h over | $30 | 10 | not on this band | lowest band |
| more than 10 km an hour but not more than 15 km an hour11–15 km/h over | $80 | 20 | not on this band | moderate |
| more than 15 km an hour but not more than 20 km an hour16–20 km/h over | $120 | 20 | not on this band | moderate |
| more than 20 km an hour but not more than 25 km an hour21–25 km/h over | $170 | 35 | not on this band | serious |
| more than 25 km an hour but not more than 30 km an hour26–30 km/h over | $230 | 35 | not on this band | serious |
| more than 30 km an hour but not more than 35 km an hour31–35 km/h over | $300 | 40 | not on this band | most serious |
| more than 35 km an hour but not more than 40 km an hour36–40 km/h over | $400 | 50 | not on this band | most serious |
| more than 40 km an hour but not more than 45 km an hour41–45 km/h over | $510 | 50 | permanent limit only | most serious |
| more than 45 km an hour but not more than 50 km an hour46–50 km/h over | $630 | 50 | permanent limit only | most serious |
| More than 50 km/h over the limitno row in this schedule | no infringement fee exists | the points ladder keeps running — see below | any speed limit | off the ladder |
Schedule 1B Part 2 prices exactly 9 rungs, ending at “more than 45 but not more than 50 km an hour” ($630). Beyond 50 km/h over, there is no infringement fee in this scale — the matter leaves the infringement system entirely. Never extrapolate a 10th rung.
The roadside-suspension column reads an enforcement-officer detection. Section 95(1)(c) names approved vehicle surveillance equipment and a point-to-point average speed system together, so no camera detection reaches a suspension at any speed. Its two thresholds are more than 40 km/h over a permanent speed limit and more than 50 km/h over any other limit.
Above the ceiling the ordinary conviction route applies instead, where the schedule states a flat maximum fine of $1,000 for an individual — a different provision, and one that is not scaled by how far over the limit the speed was.
Source — Land Transport (Offences and Penalties) Regulations 1999 (SR 1999/99), Schedule 1B Part 2 — from 27 February 2005 (Sch 1B inserted, SR 2004/448 reg 9; no later Part 2 amendment footnote found)
Find an offence
517 offences, one table per instrument
Every offence in the schedule sits under the instrument it is made under. Open the instrument named on your infringement notice and the whole of it is one table — the four columns, in full, with nothing merged.
How to read this
Four columns, and they are four different facts
A maximum fine on conviction and an infringement fee are two different routes, and each of them is stated separately for an individual and for a body corporate. Merging any pair loses the distinction the whole schedule is built on.
The infringement fee is what an infringement notice states: paying it deals with the matter without a conviction. The maximum fine on conviction is the ceiling a court may impose if the matter goes that way instead — it is a maximum, not a tariff, and it is not what most people are looking at.
Body corporate is a separate column because a company can commit some of these offences and not others. Where the schedule shows nothing in that column, the column does not apply — which is a different fact from a company being fined nothing.
— is the schedule’s own em dash, reproduced: that column does not apply to this offence. It is deliberately not rendered as $0 — a zero and an inapplicability are different facts, and a body corporate that cannot commit an offence is not a body corporate fined nothing for it. Where a cell points at another schedule’s scale, the pointer is printed rather than resolved into a figure the row does not itself state.
Not the operative text
The descriptions in this table are not the offence
What this catalogue leaves out
Two omissions, both counted and both deliberate
A reference document is only trustworthy if it says what it does not contain. Neither of these is a gap somebody forgot to fill.
Set locally, not nationally
Parking and stopping items are not priced here
27 rows of the Road User Rule’s own rule 6 series — its parking and stopping provisions — are left out of this catalogue. Those fees are the ones a road controlling authority sets by its own bylaw, and this schedule shows the shape of that itself: where an amount can be undercut locally, the schedule states the qualifier in the cell alongside it.
A national parking figure printed bare, without that qualifier, reads to somebody holding a ticket as the amount they owe. So this site prints none anywhere, and names the omission here instead of taking it quietly. The authority named on a parking notice is the one that set the fee on it.
Land Transport (Road User) Rule 2004, rule 6 series
A floor, not a claim
Most rows carry the consolidation’s date, not their own
The consolidation’s own “as at” stamp is a FLOOR for every row, not a claim about when each row was enacted: 1 of 544 rows carry a footnote-traced commencement of their own in this payload.
The rest have been in force at least since that stamp, not necessarily only since it — a named gap rather than a hidden one, and the reason this site states a period under every table rather than a single date at the top of the site.
SOURCE — Land Transport (Offences and Penalties) Regulations 1999 (SR 1999/99), Schedule 1 — as at 19 May 2026 (ltop-1999 consolidation stamp)
Where the infringement system ends
Above 50 km/h over the limit, there is no infringement fee at all
The schedule prices its bands and stops. It does not trail off, and there is no larger fee in it to find.
Schedule 1B Part 2 prices exactly 9 rungs, ending at “more than 45 but not more than 50 km an hour” ($630). Beyond 50 km/h over, there is no infringement fee in this scale — the matter leaves the infringement system entirely. Never extrapolate a 10th rung.
What applies instead is the ordinary conviction route, where the schedule above states a flat maximum fine for an individual — a different provision, and one that is not scaled by how far over the limit the speed was. Any figure presented as “the fine for > 50 km/h over” is an extrapolation of a ladder that has no rung there.