Section 37A | [ Fixed Penalty Notices For Certain Offences] | Salmon And Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975 C51

[37A Fixed penalty notices for certain offences]

Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975 (1975 c 51) | Legislation

[37A Fixed penalty notices for certain offences]

[(1) Where on any occasion a water bailiff or other officer of the [appropriate agency] finds a person who he has reason to believe is committing, or has on that occasion committed, a fixed penalty offence, he may give to that person a notice (in this section referred to as a “fixed penalty notice”) offering him the opportunity of discharging any liability to conviction for that offence by payment of a fixed penalty.

(2) Where a person is given a fixed penalty notice in respect of a fixed penalty offence—

(a) no proceedings shall be instituted for that offence before the expiration of the period for paying the fixed penalty; and

(b) he shall not be convicted of that offence if the fixed penalty is paid before the expiration of that period.

(3) The [appropriate agency] may extend the period for paying the fixed penalty in any particular case if it considers it appropriate to do so in all the circumstances of the case.

(4) If, in any particular case, the [appropriate agency] considers that a fixed penalty notice which has been given ought not to have been given, it may give