My understanding is that you pay the fine but the points that are applied to your licence is what you would have been given if the offence had occurred in the State that the licence is held. The main reason for this is that allowable points on a licence are different in each State so you could be over penalised if points from the offence state apply.
Eg NSW has a licence with 13 demerit points but the ACT only has a 12 point licence so if you loose 4 points in NSW on an ACT licence you are being over penalised if 4 points are taken from your ACT licence - as a NSW 4 point penalty is the same as a 3 point penalty in the ACT you only loose 3 points if on an ACT licence - if the offence is the opposite way round and you lost 3 points in the ACT on a NSW licence, this would mean you loose 4 points on your NSW Licence.
I believe the same applies with other jurisdictions.
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