N.J. Stat. Ann. § 39:5-30.11

It shall not be a defense to nor a reason for an adjournment of any suspension proceeding instituted pursuant to this act that a. the director initially notified the licensee of any less stringent administrative alternatives then available to the licensee, prior to the division receiving notification of more recent points accumulated by the licensee, or b. the director failed to notify the licensee, pursuant to the provisions of section 3of this act, of the number of points he had accumulated. At any hearing held pursuant to this act, the administrative law judge shall consider as reason forthe suspension and the length of the suspension the actual number of points accumulated by the licensee prior to the date of the hearing.