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Pay your fee:

If you receive an infringement notice, you need to pay your fee within 28 days of it being issued or dispute it. You can pay your fee online.

An infringement notice alleges that an offence has been committed and requires payment of a fee. Infringement offences fees and fine amounts are set by law.

How to pay your fee:

You can pay using internet banking. The notice explains how to pay, and to use your infringement notice number as a reference. You can find your infringement notice number at the top of the notice (and the reminder notice).

What happens if you don’t pay on time:

Payment for infringement notices is due within 28 days of you receiving the notice. If you don’t pay within 28 days, we will send you one reminder notice, giving you a further 28 days to pay.

If you haven’t either paid or disputed the notice by the due date on your reminder notice, it is referred to the district court that is closest to where the infringement took place. The court will issue a Notice of Fine and add a court cost.

The court can take enforcement action against people and organisations who don’t pay their fines. You have to pay an extra cost on top of the fine if this happens. This can include taking money from your income or bank account and stopping you travelling overseas.

How to dispute your infringement fee

You are entitled to dispute the infringement fee, if you think you should not have received it, within 28 days. After 28 days, we will send a reminder, and you will have a further 28 days to respond before the infringement is transferred to the court.

View further details of your rights and obligations on this website or on the back of the notice.
You can:
  • ask the Department to cancel the notice (include an explanation of the facts you want the Department to consider)
  • request a hearing in court to contest the notice or the fee amount (you may want to seek legal advice first)
  • submit that the Department should transfer the notice to another person (that is, you think someone else should have got the notice).
You need to write to the Department at gambling@dia.govt.nz within 28 days of the infringement notice date (or the reminder). Include the notice number and date.

If you do not have access to email, write to:

Gambling Group,
PO Box 10-095, Wellington,
New Zealand 6143

We will acknowledge your communication, consider it, and inform you of our decision in writing.

What happens to the fee or fine money?

The Department and court pass all infringement fees and fines they receive to the Treasury.