Queensland Council Local Law Infringement Notice or SPER Referral Record

Council-issued infringement notices for local law and animal management offences, and the default certificates and referral records that send unpaid notices to the State Penalties Enforcement Registry (SPER). Under State Penalties Enforcement Act 1999 s 15, an infringement notice must state a unique number for the notice, its date, the alleged offender's full name and address, the offence particulars (place, time and date, and identifying particulars for any animal or vehicle), and the fine. s 22 and s 23 set out payment, court election and instalments within 28 days. When the alleged offender defaults, the administering authority may give SPER a default certificate (s 33), and SPER may then issue an enforcement order (s 38). Council compliance and remedial notices (Local Government Act 2009 s 138AA) often precede the infringement. Local law registers are public, but individual notices and SPER referral batches are not.

Type: regex
Engine: boost_regex
Confidence: medium
Confidence justification: Medium. Infringement and SPER vocabulary is shared with traffic, transport and other state agencies, so enforce tiers need a council / local-law context term and populated fields. Infringement notice number formats are unpublished, so the notice number is the registry's label-anchored fallback (infringement-notice-number). 85/75 are heuristic evidence tiers, not measured accuracy. Test values are synthetic.
Jurisdictions: au, au-qld
Regulations: State Penalties Enforcement Act 1999 (Qld), Local Government Act 2009 (Qld), Animal Management (Cats and Dogs) Act 2008 (Qld), Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld)
Frameworks: QGISCF
Data categories: law-enforcement, pii, government
Scope: narrow
Risk rating: 6
Platform compatibility: Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?i)\b(?:(?:penalty\s+)?infringement\s+notice|default\s+certificate|State\s+Penalties\s+Enforcement\s+Registry|(?:referred|referral|lodged|registered)\s+(?:to|with)\s+SPER|SPER\s+(?:referral|registration|lodgement|debt)|remedial\s+notice|compliance\s+notice)\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

local law, council, authorised person, SPER, default certificate, unregistered dog, overgrown, unsightly

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

Penalty infringement notice - Harbourview Regional Council (animal management local law) Infringement notice number: 2026084291 Alleged offender: Jordan Teston Address: 22 Banksia Drive, Mackay QLD 4740 Offence: dog not effectively confined to the property Fine: $309.60 Due date: 21/10/2026 — Council local law infringement notice with the SPER s 15 fields (85 tier)
Default certificate - referral to SPER Council: Harbourview Regional Council Notice number: 7004418273 Alleged offender: Morgan Teston Address: 5 Seagull Parade, Hervey Bay QLD 4655 Offence: failure to comply with compliance notice (overgrown allotment) Amount outstanding: $1,238.00 — SPER referral record for an unpaid local law notice (85 tier)
Infringement notice issued by council authorised person for an unregistered dog. Name: Riley Teston — Council infringement note with the alleged offender name only (75 tier)
Remedial notice follow-up: the local law officer issued infringement notice no. 2026-0413 for the unsightly allotment after the compliance period ended. — Local law compliance note with a labelled notice number only (75 tier)

Should not match

15 Infringement notices (1) An infringement notice must be in the form approved by the administering authority. (2) The notice must state a unique number for the notice; the date of the notice; the alleged offender's full name, or surname and any initial, and address. — SPER Act s 15 text (legislation, 65 only)
Penalty infringement notice - council local laws Infringement notice number: __________ Alleged offender: __________ Address: __________ Offence: __________ Fine: $________ — Blank council infringement notice form (65 only)
Frequently asked questions: if you do not pay your council infringement notice within 28 days it may be referred to SPER, the State Penalties Enforcement Registry. — Council FAQ page (guidance exclusion)
Council issued 3,412 local law infringement notices in 2025-26 and referred 1,020 to SPER, the annual report shows. — Aggregate statistics (65 only)
Speed camera detection - infringement notice number: 2025041872. Registered operator: Alex Teston, Aitkenvale QLD 4814. Department of Transport and Main Roads. — Traffic camera notice without council / local-law context (65 here; covered by traffic-camera-record)

Known false positives

SPER Act text, council FAQ and payment pages, annual reports and the SPER Regulation offence schedules. Mitigation: Enforce tiers need a populated offender field or labelled notice number plus council context. A guidance exclusion suppresses FAQ pages, fact sheets, the Regulation and annual reports.
Traffic and speed camera notices from the Department of Transport and Main Roads or Queensland Revenue Office. Mitigation: They lack council / local-law context, so they stay at 65 here. traffic-camera-record covers them. A council parking or camera notice can match both classifiers.
Blank notice forms. Mitigation: Values must be on the same line as the label, and blank lines and bracket placeholders are rejected.