Date of issue: 26 September 2023

Driver licence/permit number: 40557996

Demerit Points and Offence Management

Locked Bag 7000
Kew VIC 3101

Email: demerits@roads.vic.gov.au
Enquiries: 13 11 71
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Xinyi Zhou
U 12 41 Harrow St
BOX HILL VIC 3128

Dear Miss Zhou,

NOTICE OF DEMERIT POINT SUSPENSION
Advice has been received that you committed the below offence during your extended demerit point period.
As a result, your driver licence and/or learner permit will be suspended for 6 month(s), from 25 October 2023
until midnight on 24 April 2024. You must not drive during this time.
T.I.N
Offence date Offence description Points
number
03 September 2023 0391868901 DRIVER TOUCHING A PORTABLE DEVICE 4
Return your licence card
If you haven’t already, you must return your driver licence card to VicRoads within 14 days of your suspension
starting. If your card is lost or stolen, you must provide us with a statutory declaration confirming this.
Mail your card (or statutory declaration) to VicRoads GPO Box 1644, Melbourne VIC 3001 or drop it off at any
VicRoads Customer Service Centre.
Infringement enquiries
To enquire about the above infringement, if it has a Traffic Infringement Notice (T.I.N) number listed, please
contact Fines Victoria on (03) 9200 8111, or write to GPO Box 1916, Melbourne 3001. To view the road safety
camera image online visit fines.vic.gov.au.
If the offence listed above is the result of a court hearing outcome, no TIN number will be listed. For all other
enquiries contact VicRoads on 13 11 71.
Your appeal rights
You can appeal a demerit point suspension to a Magistrates’ Court on either or both of the following grounds:
1. that the demerit points were recorded other than as required by law;
2. that an error has been made in the addition of demerit points you incurred in the relevant period.
These are the only grounds on which you can appeal a suspension.
As well as lodging an appeal, you may also apply to the Magistrates' Court for a ‘stay’ (pausing) of the
suspension until the appeal is determined.
The Court can only stay your suspension if it is satisfied that your appeal has a reasonable prospect of
success and, in the three years prior to your application, your driver licence/learner permit hasn’t been
suspended or cancelled.
An appeal must be made within 28 days after the date on which the suspension starts. You must give written
notice of the appeal to a registrar of the Magistrates’ Court, asking the registrar to endorse a copy of the
notice with the date on which the appeal is to be heard.

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You must then provide a copy of the endorsed notice so that it is received not less than 14 days before the
hearing date, by:
emailing it to dpa@roads.vic.gov.au, or
mailing it to Demerit Points and Offence Management, Locked Bag 7000, Kew VIC 3101.
If you lose, abandon or withdraw an appeal less than four days before the hearing date, we may claim costs
and the Court, in its discretion, may order you to pay costs.
Contesting your demerit point offences
This appeal is not a mechanism to contest or challenge individual offence/s.
Any challenge to such offences must be undertaken within legally permitted time frames and to the agency
that issued the infringement or via court proceedings. If in doubt, you should seek legal advice.
Relevant legislation
Sections 40 and 46H(1) of the Road Safety Act 1986.

Yours sincerely

Head of Driver Safety Standards

Delegate of the Secretary to the Department of Transport

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