Bring parking, permits, inspections, evidence and reporting into one practical council workflow.
Cases Configuration
Local Laws
Register council local laws, penalties, clauses and review requirements so cases and enforcement tasks map to the correct legal basis.
What local laws control
Local Laws is the legal reference library for cases. Add the local laws your council or organisation enforces, then map case activity, parking offence decisions and enforcement outcomes back to those records.
Each local law can carry the name, category, status, last updated date, legislation reference, section or clause, short description, penalty and whether an inspection is required. Those details stay with the case so officers and reviewers can see the legal basis for the work.
Local law records
A record can be created manually or imported from a council CSV. Use the table to search, create new records, switch between active and archived laws, sort and manage visible columns.
- Name — the short operational name used by staff.
- Category — the operational grouping, such as parking, building, signage or short stay.
- Law & section — the legal instrument and clause that support the offence.
- Penalty — the penalty value used when the law is enforced.
- Status — whether the local law is active, archived or under review.
Editing a local law
Open a local law to edit its identity and offence details. The identity section records the operational name, category, council owner, law name, law type, section or clause, law year and legislation reference.
The offence section records the offence description, trigger and penalty fields. These values are what operators and downstream case workflows rely on when the local law is used.
Process and review
Use the infringement, timing and process fields to define how the law behaves once enforced. You can record notice periods, response periods, whether inspections or reinspections are required, whether warnings are allowed, and whether a permit is required.
Applicability and review settings help describe who the local law applies to and whether the record is complete. This keeps case tasks aligned to the correct liable party and review status.
Available fields
Available Fields controls which columns are offered in the Local Laws table and their order. This lets a council keep only the fields it needs visible, while still storing unavailable fields in the background.
Extra legal-source fields can be added when a council needs them, including authority, law year, instrument number, administering body, gazette date, law type, source, instrument title, instrument short title, made under section, gazette reference and commencement date.
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