Urgent bill validates speeding tickets

**mashman** · 21st July 2015, 22:30

Parliament has passed a bill under urgency that validates speeding tickets issued since 2004 for breaking speed limits that councils might not have had legal authority to set.... only 10 years backdated lol.

**Voltaire** · 22nd July 2015, 08:07

I was bored last night and read the AA magazine, was surprised to see a scooter on the cover and an article on scootering being the future of city transport...

Amusing line was calling speeders " Revenue Donators"

Its not the speed cameras fault you can't keep to the speed it went on.

Thanks AA for the laugh.

**Scuba_Steve** · 22nd July 2015, 08:30

Originally Posted by Voltaire

Amusing line was calling speeders " Revenue Donators"

Its not the speed cameras fault you can't keep to the speed it went on.

Thanks AA for the laugh.

I saw that one, what a numpty that guy was

**TheDemonLord** · 22nd July 2015, 08:40

If the Govt had any integrity, they would refund the fines, remove the Demerit points, issue a pardon for any revoked driver licenses and improve their internal processes.

however.....

**ellipsis** · 22nd July 2015, 08:46

...it's not revenue collecting...the *honest politician* said so on the radio this morning...

* insert Tui ad*

...I wonder if they will decide that we didn't pay enough rates over a certain past, time frame...fucking thieving cunts...

**mashman** · 22nd July 2015, 09:35

Originally Posted by TheDemonLord

If the Govt had any integrity, they would refund the fines, remove the Demerit points, issue a pardon for any revoked driver licenses and improve their internal processes.

however.....

I like totes agree...

**TheDemonLord** · 22nd July 2015, 09:52

Originally Posted by mashman

I like totes agree...

Shit.

That's twice in 2 days.

but yes - I take a dim view of the Government not holding itself to it's own rules.

**Katman** · 22nd July 2015, 09:53

Originally Posted by TheDemonLord

Shit.

That's twice in 2 days.

Careful - you'll be starting to see sense next.

**mashman** · 22nd July 2015, 10:01

Originally Posted by TheDemonLord

Shit.

That's twice in 2 days.

but yes - I take a dim view of the Government not holding itself to it's own rules.

... aye, as ellipsis pointed out it's likely the start of something rather unsavoury. The best one I heard recently is the bankruptcy/insolvency "claw-back" nonsense:

"When the debtor is a company that has gone into liquidation, the Companies Act enables the
liquidator to recover any voidable payments that occurred within two years prior to liquidation. "... cute eh.

**Scuba_Steve** · 22nd July 2015, 11:13

Originally Posted by TheDemonLord

Shit.

That's twice in 2 days.

but yes - I take a dim view of the Government not holding itself to it's own rules.

Like the rule that makes them illegal & void in the 1st place

**TheDemonLord** · 22nd July 2015, 11:31

Originally Posted by Scuba_Steve

Like the rule that makes them illegal & void in the 1st place

This - Although I am not as Anti-Govt as others here, I am one in the principle of the fair and even application of Law - things like this are a direct violation of that principle, which I find distasteful in the extreme.

**Akzle** · 22nd July 2015, 12:22

Originally Posted by TheDemonLord

but yes - I take a dim view of the Government not holding itself to it's own rules.

whut chu talkin bout willis?

They absolutely do!

And if thhe rules dont suit them, they change them until they do... Duh.

**HenryDorsetCase** · 22nd July 2015, 12:30

Imagine how miffed you would be if you had accumulated enough points for speeding tickets, and lost your licence, except the speeding tickets, and presumably the demerit points and thus the suspension, were unlawful. I haven't read the act but presumably there is now no recourse against anyone for these things but it is not hard to imagine a "no licence - no job - mortgagee sale - divorce" scenario all of which, I submit, My Lord, are reasonably foreseeable consequences of this unlawful ticket, ergo, the Crown should pay compensation. Couple of million should do it, Your Worship.