Member

74: Clause 37, page 19, line 33, leave out “must be £200” and insert “committed by a person for the first time and deemed serious by a local weights and measures authority must be £500 if the amount is paid before the end of the period of 14 days following the date of the notice, and otherwise £1,000. (4A) If the fixed penalty notice is not the first notice issued to the person in respect of such an offence, the fine is—(a) £2,500, if it is the second fixed penalty notice so issued;(b) £5,000, if it is the third fixed penalty notice so issued;(c) £10,000, if it is the fourth or any subsequent fixed penalty notice so issued.”Member’s explanatory statement This amendment seeks to create a stepped approach to fixed penalty notices based on how many times a person has been issued a notice.