Victoria is being urged to follow the lead of NSW and withdraw millions of dollars worth of fines for breaking COVID-19 rules.
Community legal centres YouthLaw and Inner Melbourne Community Legal say disadvantaged Victorians bore the brunt of 30,000 fines handed out while the state was under public health orders.
The call comes after a Supreme Court decision on Tuesday found certain types of fines issued in NSW were not valid because they did not include a detailed description of offences.
The court ruling prompted NSW Revenue to withdraw about half of the 60,000 fines issued there.
YouthLaw's policy, advocacy and human rights officer Tiffany Overall said some legal centres would now consider whether Victorian fines could also be tested in court.
"We will be looking closely at the implication of the NSW decision and what it could mean for Victorians that are being sued for outstanding COVID fines," Ms Overall told AAP.
"The relevance is broader than the very technical arguments that were raised in their case.
"It's that the NSW case really does highlight once again inappropriateness of this sort of policing response to a pandemic."
Ms Overall said the decision offered Victoria a fresh chance to acknowledge any issues with how fines were administered.
Individuals caught gathering in breach of public health orders could have been fined up to $5452 while businesses faced penalties up to $10,904 if they broke the rules.
"A newly re-elected Andrews government has a great opportunity to just be proactive and get in there now and not wait to see if there's any sort of case brought against against them," Ms Overall said.
Deputy Premier Jacinta Allan said she couldn't say whether Victorian authorities were looking into scrapping fines.
"We'll get some advice from a Victorian perspective and we'll just need to get a response from the attorney-general on that," Ms Allan told reporters on Wednesday.
The decision to withdraw fines in NSW didn't mean that no offences were committed, according to NSW Revenue.
The NSW case was launched by a community legal centre acting on behalf of two men who were each fined between $1000 and $3000.
