Attorney-General Robert Hulls announced the plan last week.

Until March 19, those with Government-issued unpaid fines will have all extra charges taken off and will pay only the original cost of the infringement.

In Macedon Ranges, 2293 residents had 16,070 outstanding infringement notices.

Across the north-west, Hume had the highest number of unpaid fines with 23,742 people having 189,882 unpaid fines. Hobsons Bay and Maribyrnong residents combined had 129,018 overdue fines.

"This fee waiver gives people the opportunity and incentive to act on their fines instead of simply hoping they will go away," Mr Hulls said.

The waiver applies to all State Government-issued fines, including the Department of Transport, Victoria Police and Department of Primary Industry.

Eleven councils are also taking part in the waiver, meaning they will waive fees on outstanding fines issued by them.

Those councils are Brimbank, Melbourne, Yarra, Moonee Valley, Port Phillip, Kingston, Greater Shepparton, West Wimmera, Monash, Stonnington, Brimbank and Campaspe Shire.

But Mr Hulls warned the Sheriff was about to get tough to reclaim money owing once the waiver period was over.

"With the addition of 22 new Sheriff's officers and initiatives such as wheel-clamping and registration non-renewal, fine defaulters will face a concerted enforcement operation."

Officers will also be able to use new automated number-plate recognition technology to electronically verify the number of warrants belonging to individual fine defaulters.