Editing Fine (penalty) (section)

====Process of the administrative fine====
Once a subject has been fined by an officer or photographed by a speed camera, he will receive a decision within four months.<ref>[http://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0004581/2016-01-01#HoofdstukIII_Artikel4 Art. 4 section 2 Wahv]</ref> This decision will contain a short description of the violation, the place and time the violation was committed and the sum of the fine.<ref>[http://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0004581/2016-01-01#HoofdstukIII_Artikel4 Art. 4 section 1 Wahv]</ref>
The subject will have two choices now. He can pay the fine, or he can go into appeal. In contrast to the court-imposed fine, when the subject has paid the fine, he will keep the right to go into appeal. The subject can go into appeal within six weeks.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0005537/2016-11-03#Hoofdstuk6_Afdeling6.2_Artikel6:7|title=wetten.nl - Regeling - Algemene wet bestuursrecht - BWBR0005537|website=wetten.overheid.nl}}</ref> In the first instance, the subject appeals to the public prosecutor.<ref>[http://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0004581/2016-01-01#HoofdstukIV_Artikel6 Art. 6 section 1 Wahv]</ref> The prosecutor shall withdraw the fine completely when he thinks the appellant has right. He will lower the fine sum if he thinks the suspect is partially correct. If the prosecutor believes the suspect is wrong, he will uphold the fine. The suspect does not have to pay the fine as long as the prosecutor has not decided on the appeal yet.

Once the prosecutor has decided, the suspect will again have two choices. He can pay, or he goes into appeal at the sub-district judge of his arrondissement (or the arrondissement of the place where the disputed violation was committed). But now, the suspect has to pay the fine as a surety.<ref name="overheid.nl1">[http://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0004581/2016-01-01#HoofdstukV_Artikel11 Art. 11 section 3 Wahv]</ref> If the suspect doesn't pay the surety, the judge will declare him inadmissible (thus the fine will be upheld).<ref name="overheid.nl1"/> The judge will have the same choices as the prosecutor. He can withdraw the fine, lower the fine, or uphold the fine.

If the (remaining) fine is higher than €70 and the suspect or/nor the prosecutor disagrees with the sub-district judge's verdict, the suspect or the prosecutor can go into appeal for the last time.<ref>[http://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0004581/2016-01-01#HoofdstukV_Artikel11 Art. 14 section 1 Wahv]</ref> He does that at the court of appeal of Arnhem-Leeuwarden in Leeuwarden.<ref>[http://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0004581/2016-01-01#HoofdstukVI_Artikel14 Art. 14 section 1 Wahv]</ref> This appeal will be in writing, unless the appellant, per se, wants to do it orally.<ref>[http://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0004581/2016-01-01#HoofdstukV_Artikel11 Art. 20a section 1 Wahv]</ref> If the fine is lower than €70, or the appellant's appeal is rejected in Leeuwarden, there will be no legal remedies anymore and the case will be closed. The appellant's surety will be transformed into a fine.<ref>[http://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0004581/2016-01-01#HoofdstukVII_Artikel21 Art. 21 section 2 Wahv]</ref>