The Justice Committee is calling for public submissions on the Antisocial Road Use Legislation Amendment Bill. The single broad policy of the bill is to deter antisocial driving behaviour that negatively affects road and community safety. This includes fleeing from the Police, illegal street racing, dirt bike gatherings, frightening or intimidating convoys, and excessive noise. The bill seeks to implement the policy by giving the Police and the courts greater powers. It would also create new offences and strengthen penalties associated with the antisocial behaviours.

The changes proposed by the bill include:

• creating a new “frightening or intimidating convoy” offence
• broadening the existing powers to compel a registered person to immediately provide information about a driver who fails to stop
• creating a new presumption (with specified exceptions) that would require a court to order that a vehicle be forfeited, or forfeited and destroyed, on a first offence basis upon conviction for specified offences
• giving the Police power to temporarily close a road or accessible place to traffic on grounds related to antisocial road use.

Tell the Justice Committee what you think

Make a submission on the bill by 1.00pm on Tuesday, 30 September 2025.

For more details about the bill:

· Read the full content of the bill

· Get more details about the bill

· What’s been said in Parliament about the bill?

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