Clause 3 - Amount of penalty and form of penalty notice
Criminal Justice and Police Bill
4:50 pm
Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire, Conservative)
My point is that the cases that are the ones that are likely to be tried are of the type in which a person would want to fill in an extra statement. It is difficult to see why, in those circumstances, one would ever go for the fixed penalty notice option, unless the Minister is telling us that his guidance will suggest that one should. If it is a complicated issue, involving issues of identity, and the officer feels that he really needs a full statement, it is likely to be the sort of case that ends up in a trial.