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Land Transport Act 1998

46 offences in the penalty schedule are made under this instrument. Each row states its maximum fine on conviction and its infringement fee, separately for an individual and for a body corporate — four different facts about one offence, and they are never merged.

The table

46 offences, with the four columns in full

The provision column is each row’s real identifier. The description beside it is the schedule’s own brief indication of the provision’s content and is not the operative text.

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Penalties for offences under the Land Transport Act 1998
OffenceProvisionMax fine on conviction — individualMax fine on conviction — body corporateInfringement fee — individualInfringement fee — body corporate
Using equipment in a motor vehicle that interferes with operation of speed measuring device16B(a)$50
Possessing equipment in a motor vehicle that is designed to interfere with operation of speed measuring device16B(b)$50
Contravention, without reasonable excuse, of a bylaw made under section 22AB or 22AC22A(3A)$1,000$150
Driving without appropriate current driver licence31(1)(a)$400
Driving contrary to conditions of driver licence31(1)(b)$400
Failing to produce driver licence31(1)(c)$55
Person fails to produce zero alcohol licence31(1)(c)$400
Operating vehicle without displaying or having electronically available current evidence of vehicle inspection or certificate of loading, where the vehicle is a heavy motor vehicle or is used in a transport service34(1)(b)$600
Operating vehicle without displaying or having electronically available current evidence of vehicle inspection or certificate of loading, where the vehicle is not a heavy motor vehicle or is not used in a transport service34(1)(b)$200
Without reasonable excuse, intentionally pouring on, placing on, or allowing to spill onto a road any petrol, oil, or diesel fuel, etc36A(1)(b)$600
Failing to secure load42(1)$600
Making a false or misleading statutory declaration, etc44(1)$750
Contravening requirements, conditions, or directions about traffic surveys46(1)$500
Failing to report damage to other vehicles or property47(3)$370
Failing to release vehicle towed away, in certain circumstances50(1)$280
Removing, obscuring, or rendering indistinguishable a notice directing that vehicle not be driven on road52(1)(a)$600
Driving vehicle contrary to notice under section 11552(1)(b)$600
Failing to comply with direction or requirement concerning off-loading of heavy motor vehicle or securing of load on heavy motor vehicle52(1)(c) or (d)$750
Failing to comply with direction to stop heavy motor vehicle or to drive heavy motor vehicle to weighing device52(1)(c)$1,000
Obstruction, etc, in relation to inspection of vehicle required to have evidence of vehicle inspection or certificate of loading53(1)$370
Person who tampers with, or attempts to tamper with, an alcohol interlock device, or uses an alcohol interlock device in contravention of an order made under section 65A of the Act55A(2)$1,000
Driving or attempting to drive with breath-alcohol concentration exceeding 250 micrograms but not exceeding 400 micrograms of alcohol per litre of breath56(1A)$200
Driving or attempting to drive with blood-alcohol concentration exceeding 50 milligrams but not exceeding 80 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood56(2A)$200
Driving or attempting to drive with blood-alcohol concentration exceeding 50 milligrams but not exceeding 80 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood, and failing or refusing to undergo evidential breath test when required56(2B)$700
Person younger than 20 who drives or attempts to drive if his or her breath contains alcohol but the proportion of alcohol does not exceed 150 micrograms of alcohol per litre of breath57(1A)$200
Person younger than 20 who drives or attempts to drive if his or her blood contains alcohol but the proportion of alcohol does not exceed 30 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood57(2A)$200
Driving or attempting to drive with blood containing evidence of use of 1 qualifying drug57A(2)$500$200
Driving or attempting to drive with result of analysis of oral fluid sample carried out by approved analyst positive for 1 listed qualifying drug57A(3)$500$200
Driving or attempting to drive with blood containing evidence of use of 2 or more qualifying drugs57B(2)$1,000$400
Driving or attempting to drive with result of analysis of oral fluid sample carried out by approved analyst positive for 2 or more listed qualifying drugs57B(3)$1,000$400
Driving or attempting to drive with blood containing alcohol and evidence of use of 1 qualifying drug57C(2)$1,000$400
Driving or attempting to drive with blood containing alcohol below specified blood-alcohol limits and with result of analysis of oral fluid sample carried out by approved analyst positive for 1 listed qualifying drug57C(3)$1,000$400
Driving or attempting to drive with breath containing alcohol below specified alcohol limits and result of analysis of oral fluid sample carried out by approved analyst positive for 1 listed qualifying drug57C(4)$1,000$400
Failing or refusing to remain at specified place or to accompany enforcement officer without delay59(3)$400
Failing or refusing to undergo oral fluid screening test without delay60A(1)(a)$1,000$400
Failing or refusing to provide oral fluid sample60A(1)(b)$1,000$400
Having control, or permitting a person to have control, of a licensed transport service without the approval of the Director of Land Transport79EA(1) or (2)$500$1,000
Failing to pay passenger service fare or public transport service fare79M(1) or (2)(a)$150
Failing to provide evidence of having paid public transport service fare (in response to enforcement officer’s direction made in accordance with section 128F(1))79M(2)(b)$150
Person produces logbook with 1 to 5 omissions79R$150
Person produces logbook with 6 to 10 omissions79R$300
Person produces logbook with 11 or more omissions79R$500
Person fails to produce logbook79R$500
Operator requiring person in charge of motor vehicle to pay fee that exceeds prescribed amount98D(2)(a)$1,000$5,000
Operator failing to remove or arrange for removal of immobilising device in accordance with section 98D(2)(c)98D(2)(c)$1,000$5,000
Failure to release vehicle towed away, in certain circumstances128E(5)$280

SourceLand Transport (Offences and Penalties) Regulations 1999 (SR 1999/99), Schedule 1 — as at 19 May 2026 (ltop-1999 consolidation stamp)

Speed rows here are worked out in full on the speeding ticket page (the fee), and on the demerit points page (what is recorded against a licence, if anything).

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.

The brief descriptions given in the second column of Schedule 1, and the first column of Schedule 1A and Schedule 1B, are intended only to be an indication of the content of the provisions they describe, and are not intended to be used in the interpretation of the provisions.

The rest of the catalogue

This is one of 35 instruments in the schedule

The index lists every one of them with its offence count, so a notice naming a different instrument is one link away rather than one long scroll away.

27 rule 6 (parking and stopping) rows of the Land Transport (Road User) Rule 2004 are deliberately not priced anywhere on this site: those fees are set by the road controlling authority’s own bylaw, and a national figure printed bare would read as the amount somebody owes. The hub states that omission in full, with its count.

Every figure taken from the Land Transport Act 1998 or the 1999 Regulations, with its citation.

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PREVIEW — the figures here are researched from the legislation and cited, but none has been through final review yet.