Unpaid fines can affect your driver licence and vehicle registration

Published on 13 Aug 2024

The Director, Fines Victoria has the power under section 89 of the Fines Reform Act 2014 to apply sanctions on a driver licence or permit or vehicle registration, to encourage you to resolve your outstanding fines.

A sanction may include suspending or preventing you from renewing your driver licence or vehicle registration or restricting your ability to transfer a vehicle out of your name.

Before applying a sanction, Fines Victoria may send you a ‘Suspension of Driver Licence and/or Vehicle Registration Pending’ letter.

If you receive this letter, you must take immediate action to deal with your fines to prevent the suspension of your driver licence or vehicle registration. If you do not act and your licence or a vehicle registration is suspended, you will receive a letter from VicRoads with the details of your suspension.

Heavy penalties apply for driving unlicensed and driving an unregistered vehicle. 

If you receive a letter from VicRoads advising of the suspension of your driver licence or vehicle registration due to outstanding fines, you must deal with all the fines included in the sanction for the suspension to be lifted.

To pay your fines in full go to Pay your fine. You can also apply to pay by instalments. To seek a review of your fines, or see other options to deal with them, visit Your options.

For more information on driver and vehicle sanctions go to Driver and Vehicle Sanctions. 

If you need more information, call us on 1300 396 851 between 8:00am and 6:00pm weekdays, except public holidays.