0800 COURTS closes at 3:00pm 24 December 2025, for urgent matters (relating to family matter or bail conditions), please call 0800 253 425. 0800 4 FINES closes at 7:00pm, 24 December 2025. Our Contact Centres will reopen at 8:00am on Monday 5 January 2026. National Office (Aitken Street, Wellington) reception will be closed from 3:00pm on Friday 19 December, reopening at 8:00am on Monday 5 January 2026. For more information, see Court and Tribunal hours
You can use this form to help you communicate your financial means to the court when you ask for time to pay your fines.
Statement of means form [PDF, 187 KB]
Also called a 78B application, you can use it to have an infringement fine returned to the issuing authority where you can challenge it.
Learn more about disputing a fine
Application to dispute that a fine has been filed in court [PDF, 1.2 MB]
If your property has been seized by the court to pay someone else's fine, you can use this form to reclaim your property.
Claim to seized property [PDF, 255 KB]
If you have been sent a warning that your vehicle could be seized for someone else's unpaid fines and there is a reason the warning should not apply to your vehicle.
Application for cancellation of warning by vehicle owner [PDF, 205 KB]
If your vehicle has been seized after you were sent a warning that your vehicle could be seized to pay someone else's unpaid fines, and there are reasons you should get the vehicle back.
Challenge to vehicle seizure [PDF, 280 KB]
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