Sent: Wednesday, 10 September 2025 4:20 PM
To: Transurban Enquiries <transurban_enquiries@recoveriescorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: Our Ref: 655335052 Arrangement Offer!
Toll Payment Notice
We received the above notice of demand for us to pay a toll, plus penalty charges, for our trip across City link) on UN known date.
We wish to advise you that We were quite prepared to pay a toll in Australian currency, however there was nobody from your company present to accept payment. Therefore as We were unable to make this payment at that time, We considered that you had abrogated your right to demand any payment from us.
The Australian Currency Act 1965 clearly specifies that the ONLY legal tender in Australia is Australian currency. No other form of payment is legal tender, including cheques, promissory notes, bars of gold, or in this particular instance, electronic tolling.
Also, under the Australian Constitution, the highest law in the nation that overrides all other legislation states in Section 115 as follows:
115. A State shall not coin money, nor make anything but gold and silver coin a legal tender in payment of debts.
This clearly implies that the only legal tender in any state of Australia is gold and silver coins, not electronic tolling in your particular case.
Because there was no representative or employee of your company to collect the toll payment that We were prepared to freely offer at the time, We consider that any debt to your company that you consider We may have incurred in driving on your so-called toll road is therefore forgiven under the various Laws of Tort in this nation.
We wish to also advise you that We were not under any legal obligation to divert from our journey in order to go to a place designated by you to pay the toll in cash.
If you failed to provide a person to collect the toll payment from us at the start of the toll road or the tolling point, then that was negligent of you and is not our problem.
Therefore we demand that you immediately withdraw this notice of demand, however, we warn you that if you choose to proceed with trying to recover a forgiven debt from us, We will take all legal measures to overturn this demand and also proceed against your company for damages and possibly even illegal demanding money with menaces, as this is a serious criminal offense.
Yours sincerely,
Executor and Beneficiary
They emailed us back with
Good morning,
Thank you for reaching out and we take this opportunity to acknowledge receipt of your email.
Please be advised, Recoveriescorp is only acting on behalf of the Linkt as per instructions issued to us by our client.
We have forwarded your email to our internal team, who will liaise with the client. The file will remain on hold until such time as we receive a response.
Should you wish to discuss with one of our agents, do not hesitate to contact us on 1300 135 017 between 8:30AM and 5:00PM, Monday to Friday AEDT.
Kind Regards,
Sneha
Customer Support Officer
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