Ayr DUI Lawyers
In shortBoorman Lawyers are experienced, dedicated drink driving, drug driving and DUI lawyers who regularly appear at Ayr Magistrates Court and represent clients facing alcohol, drug and serious traffic charges at this courthouse. Ayr Magistrates Court, at 163 Queen Street, is a Townsville circuit court. Its general callover, which includes traffic and licence applications, sits at 9.30am on listed Mondays; the remaining 2026 dates are 2, 16 and 30 November and 14 December. Filing and enquiries go through the Townsville registry. We assist clients at Ayr Magistrates Court by appearing at court mentions, guilty pleas and sentencing hearings, preparing comprehensive sentencing submissions and character reference material, advising on compulsory licence disqualification periods and mandatory alcohol interlock rules under Queensland law, and preparing section 87 restricted work licence and special hardship order applications.
- Court: Ayr Magistrates Court, 163 Queen Street, Ayr Qld 4807. Registry: Townsville, 31 Walker Street, phone (07) 4781 8600.
- Traffic (2026 calendar): general callover incl. traffic and licence applications, 9.30am on listed Mondays (2, 16, 30 Nov; 14 Dec).
- Licence: disqualification on every conviction (TORUM s 86); interlock from 0.10 (s 91I).
Queensland law · law checked 20 Oct 2026
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How does the Ayr court work if the magistrate comes from Townsville?
Ayr Magistrates Court is a circuit court. The building at 163 Queen Street, Ayr, is where your case is heard, but the magistrate travels down from Townsville and the paperwork is managed by the Townsville registry at 31 Walker Street. The court's 2026 calendar is headed "Townsville Circuit Court" for that reason.
The practical split looks like this:
| Happens at Ayr (163 Queen Street) | Happens through Townsville (31 Walker Street) |
|---|---|
| The general callover, where traffic and licence applications are called | Filing documents, including affidavits for a work licence application |
| Your plea, any work licence application and the sentence | Phone and email enquiries about your listing: (07) 4781 8600 |
| Hearings on the calendar's listed hearing days | Registry counter hours: 8.30am to 4.30pm, closing 4pm on Tuesdays |
The court email is courthouse.ayr@justice.qld.gov.au. Phone numbers printed for the Ayr building itself differ between sources (the directory shows (07) 4784 2801, the calendar (07) 4790 2801), so the Townsville registry number is the safest one to ring.
Which Mondays is the Ayr callover on for the rest of 2026?
The 2026 calendar lists "Arrests / Remands / General Callover" at 9.30am on set dates, generally every second Monday. Its practice note says the general callover includes traffic, licence applications, and local, state and Commonwealth prosecutions. The remaining dates this year are:
- Monday 2 November
- Monday 16 November
- Monday 30 November
- Monday 14 December
The calendar also lists child protection and children's matters on separate Tuesdays and a hearings row. A contested drink driving charge will be given a hearing date later; it is not run on the callover morning. The court will not sit during the magistrates' state conference (1 to 5 June) or on the Ayr Show holiday (24 June), both already past.
The date on your Notice to Appear is the one that matters. If it does not match one of these Mondays, call the Townsville registry before you travel.
Which towns end up at Ayr, and which go elsewhere?
Charges from Ayr itself and the surrounding Burdekin – Brandon, Alva Beach, Clare, Giru, Jerona and the cane roads between them – are generally listed at Ayr. Home Hill, across the Burdekin River bridge, sits in the same district. Charges further away normally go to their nearest court:
- Bruce Highway north towards Townsville, around Giru and Woodstock: check your notice, as some go to Townsville, about 85 km north by road.
- South towards Gumlu and Bowen: Bowen, about 115 km south-east.
- Inland via the Flinders Highway: Charters Towers, about 160 km west.
Distances are approximate road figures. The court is decided by where police listed the charge, not by where you live.
Can I drive to Ayr on the callover Monday?
Possibly not. Section 79B of the Transport Operations (Road Use Management) Act 1995 (TORUM) decides it. An open licence holder caught at 0.05 to under 0.10, with no other drink or drug charge pending, gets a 24-hour suspension and can then drive until the case ends. A reading of 0.10 or more, an under the influence charge, a failure to supply a specimen, or a charge already outstanding means your licence is suspended until the court deals with the matter. Learner, P plate, probationary and zero-limit drivers can be treated differently.
The Burdekin has little public transport, so if you are suspended, line up a lift to Queen Street early. Driving while suspended is its own offence.
What disqualification does the law require?
TORUM s 86 makes a licence disqualification compulsory on every drink or drug driving conviction. The magistrate sets the length inside these first-offence ranges, looking at the reading and the risk to the public (s 86(2A)):
- Mid range on an open licence (a reading from 0.05 up to but not including 0.10): a minimum of 2 months and a maximum of 9.
- High-mid on an open licence (from 0.10 up to but not including 0.15): a minimum of 3 months and a maximum of 12.
- A learner, provisional, probationary or unlicensed driver with any alcohol: a minimum of 3 months and a maximum of 9.
- A zero-limit open licence holder such as a truck, bus or taxi driver, with any alcohol: a minimum of 1 month and a maximum of 9.
- High range (0.15 and up), driving under the influence, or a specimen refusal: 6 months as the floor.
A repeat offence within five years carries longer ranges, and a fine is imposed as well. Fines and second-offence periods are tabled on the Queensland drink driving penalty guide.
How do I build a work licence application for a Burdekin job?
A restricted (work) licence under TORUM s 87 is technical. Think of it as a pack of documents, each one answering something the Act requires:
- Your licence record at the time of the offence. It must show an open Queensland licence, and no drink driving conviction or licence suspension, cancellation or disqualification in the previous five years. A P plate, a learner licence or a recent demerit suspension ends the application here.
- The charge and reading. It must be under 0.15, and not an under the influence or failure to supply charge.
- What you were driving and why. At the time police stopped you, you must not have been at the wheel of a heavy or other specified vehicle (a truck or bus, for example), or been driving in the course of your work. A farmhand stopped in the property ute on the way between paddocks fails this.
- Your affidavit on hardship. It must show that refusing the licence would cause extreme hardship to you or your family by taking away your means of earning a living. In the Burdekin that may be a cane haulout driver starting before dawn at a siding near Brandon, or a mill fitter at Kalamia or Pioneer on a rotating roster.
- An employer affidavit or letter. It should confirm the hours, the distances and that no other transport exists.
- Evidence you are fit and proper to drive. Your traffic history, references and any course completed.
The application is decided at your sentence, before the disqualification starts, and the affidavits are filed through the Townsville registry. If your reading was 0.10 or more, the work licence carries an interlock condition (s 91K). Step-by-step material is in the guide to restricted work licences, and the Queensland Government explains the same order on its work licence information page. Do not confuse this with a special hardship order, which applies to TMR suspensions such as demerit points and is not a way around a drink driving disqualification imposed by the court.
When is an interlock fitted, and what does the 12 months involve?
Three facts sum it up.
- It is triggered by the conviction, not by the court's choice. Under s 91I an interlock follows a conviction for a reading of 0.10 or more (first offence included), driving under the influence, failing to supply a specimen, or a second drink driving offence within five years.
- It comes after the disqualification. Once you have served the disqualification and TMR issues a new licence, you may only drive a vehicle with an approved device fitted for 12 months.
- The 12 months must actually be served. It only counts while you hold the licence with the device, and failed or missed tests can add time (s 91N). Not driving does not make it disappear.
Fitting and servicing visits may mean trips to Townsville if no approved provider services the Burdekin. Approved providers and exemptions are listed by the Queensland Government under ignition interlocks; our summary of interlock rules in Queensland covers the conditions.
Should I plead guilty at the first callover?
Not before you have seen what police rely on. The QP9 (police summary of facts) and the certificate for any breath or blood analysis should be checked first. Who was actually behind the wheel, whether a farm track or cane-road verge was a 'road', and whether the evidentiary breath test followed the procedure in TORUM s 80 can all change the right plea. The elements police must prove, and the common points of dispute, are in defending a drink driving charge and Queensland drink driving offences.
If you plead guilty, the magistrate may also decide whether to record a conviction under s 12 of the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992, weighing how serious the offence was, your age and record, and what a recorded conviction would do to your employment and social wellbeing. The disqualification applies either way. How s 12 works for traffic matters is covered under avoiding a recorded conviction, and course options under traffic offender courses.
Is drug driving dealt with differently at Ayr?
It is called in the same general callover and carries the same compulsory disqualification. The difference is timing: a roadside saliva sample goes to a lab, so the charge often comes weeks after the stop. For a 'relevant drug' charge (THC, methylamphetamine or MDMA) police only have to prove the drug was in your saliva or blood, not that it affected your driving. A charge of driving under the influence of a drug is different: impairment has to be proved, and the disqualification floor is 6 months. Whether you can keep driving while the lab result and charge are outstanding turns on your circumstances. The offences are explained in drug driving charges and penalties; where a crash or poor driving was involved, read about dangerous operation of a vehicle.
What should I do on the morning at Queen Street?
Get there before 9.30am, as the callover takes arrests, remands and other matters along with traffic. Bring your notice, references, any course certificate and copies of filed affidavits. Once your matter is called, police give the court their version of events, your side is put, and the magistrate then decides the penalty. The disqualification usually starts that day, so arrange a lift home. If you have no lawyer, ask court staff about the duty lawyer. A walk-through of a Queensland court morning is in the DUI court process guide, with wider material in Queensland traffic law and the traffic law questions page.
Does the crushing season change anything for a Burdekin driver?
The law does not change with the season, but the evidence for a work licence or a penalty submission often does. Between roughly June and November the Burdekin mills and haulout crews run long shifts, and many jobs start or finish when there is no one else on the road to give you a lift. If your hardship rests on seasonal work, say so in the affidavit and attach the roster or contract showing the dates. A magistrate deciding a work licence looks at your real working pattern, so a letter that only says "needs licence for work" carries little weight.
The other local factor is distance. From Alva Beach, Jerona or Clare, the trip to Queen Street can be a long one without a car, and the Townsville registry is further again. Plan both the callover morning and any trip to file papers before the date, rather than the week of it.
Ayr Magistrates Court details
| Court building | 163 Queen Street, Ayr Qld 4807 (PO Box 594) |
| Registry (enquiries and filing) | 31 Walker Street, Townsville Qld 4810 (PO Box 985) |
| Registry phone | (07) 4781 8600 |
| courthouse.ayr@justice.qld.gov.au | |
| Registry hours (Townsville) | Weekdays from 8.30am; closes 4.30pm, except Tuesday (4pm) |
| Traffic list | General callover 9.30am on listed Mondays (2, 16, 30 November; 14 December 2026) |
Details taken from the Queensland Courts Magistrates Courts directory (checked 19 October 2026) and the court's own 2026 calendar (checked 20 October 2026).
If you have an Ayr date coming up, call 1300 941 900 or make an enquiry about legal representation.
Queensland penalty changes in 2026: check your offence date (law checked 20 Oct 2026).
Offences on or after 31 August 2026: higher maximum fines apply. They are 20 penalty units ($3,454) for the general alcohol limit and no alcohol limit offences, 28 ($4,835.60) for the middle alcohol limit and 40 ($6,908) for driving under the influence of liquor or a drug. A first general alcohol limit conviction (0.05 to under 0.10) on an open licence now carries 2 to 9 months' disqualification. For offences before 31 August 2026 it was 1 to 9 months. Police can now give an eligible first low-range driver on an open Queensland licence an infringement notice of $1,295 instead of a court charge. Unless the driver elects to go to court, a 2-month disqualification follows. It counts as a conviction, and there is no work licence for that period. Drug driving (a relevant drug present) has not changed yet. The maximum is 14 penalty units ($2,417.80) or 3 months, with 1 to 9 months' disqualification on an open licence and 3 to 9 months for learner, P-plate and unlicensed drivers.
Offences on or after 1 December 2026: minimum fines start for drink and drug driving. For example, the minimum is 7.5 penalty units for low range and for drug driving. The drug driving maximum rises to 28 penalty units, and a first offence on an open licence carries 2 to 9 months' disqualification. A new offence of driving with a relevant drug present while over an alcohol limit adds 1 month to the disqualification range.
An offence committed before a change is generally dealt with under the penalties in force when it happened. Sources: TORUM ss 78E, 79, 79B, 79H–79J and 86, as amended by the Queensland Community Safety Act 2024 and the Transport and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2026. Penalty unit $172.70 from 1 July 2026.
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Ayr drink driving FAQs
Who do I call about an Ayr court date?
The Townsville registry on (07) 4781 8600, which manages Ayr's circuit list.
Is traffic heard at every Ayr sitting?
The general callover, which includes traffic and licence applications, is held at 9.30am on the listed Mondays.
Can I file work licence affidavits at Ayr?
Filing is through the Townsville registry at 31 Walker Street; check with the registry how to lodge before the callover.
Is disqualification compulsory for a first offence?
Yes, on conviction. At 0.05 to under 0.10 on an open licence, the range is 2 to 9 months.
Does a P plate driver qualify for a work licence?
No. Section 87 requires an open licence when the offence happened.
When does the interlock start?
After the disqualification, when TMR issues your new licence, for 12 months.
Sources and date checked
Sources and references for this page, checked 20 Oct 2026.
- Queensland Courts – Magistrates Courts directory (Ayr; registry at Townsville) — checked 19 Oct 2026
- Queensland Courts – Ayr Magistrates Court 2026 calendar (PDF) — checked 20 Oct 2026
- Transport Operations (Road Use Management) Act 1995 (Qld) – reprint current from 21 September 2026 (ss 79, 79B, 80, 86, 87, 91I, 91K, 91N) — checked 20 Oct 2026
- Queensland Government (TMR) – Restricted (work) licence — checked 20 Oct 2026
- Queensland Government (TMR) – Alcohol ignition interlocks — checked 20 Oct 2026
- Queensland Community Safety Act 2024 (Act No. 45), ss 93–104 – TORUM amendments commenced 31 August 2026 — checked 20 Oct 2026
- Transport and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2026 (Act No. 23) – assent 21 September 2026; pt 10 div 3 commences 1 December 2026 — checked 20 Oct 2026
- TORUM legislative history (commencement of amending Acts) — checked 20 Oct 2026
This page is general information about Queensland law only. It is not legal advice. Every matter turns on its own facts.
Ayr Magistrates Court — court details
Ayr Magistrates Court
- Street
- 163 Queen Street, Ayr QLD 4807
- Postal
- PO Box 594, Ayr Qld 4807
- Phone
- (07) 4781 8600
- courthouse.ayr@justice.qld.gov.au
- Registry hours
- Registry (Townsville, 31 Walker Street): 8.30am – 4.30pm Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday; 8.30am – 4pm Tuesday
- Days open
- Townsville circuit: arrests, remands and general callover (incl. traffic and licence applications) 9.30am on listed Mondays; remaining 2026: 2, 16, 30 November and 14 December
- Facilities
- See the Queensland Courts directory
Queensland Courts, Magistrates Courts directory (saved 19 Oct 2026) and Ayr Magistrates Court 2026 calendar (downloaded 20 Oct 2026). These are the court registry's details, not Boorman Lawyers office details. Check your court papers for your listing time and courtroom.
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