Clause 6 - Power to give fixed penalty notices
Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Bill
3:45 pm
Mrs Anne McIntosh (Shadow Minister, Environment and Transport; Vale of York, Conservative)
I would like to discuss the narrow points raised by the amendments, before having a more general discussion on the clause stand part.
I think that I am right in saying—I will stand corrected if the Minister contradicts me—that most of the fixed penalty notices would be imposed either by the police or by local authorities. Will he confirm that? We believe that that is not clear in the original drafting. We want to see that the police will still maintain a residual authority. There is general concern about how the fixed penalty notices will apply. We believe that the amendment, which is meant in the most constructive way possible, could assist the Government in ensuring that fixed penalty notices will be applied by all relevant officers—either of the local authority or of the local police force.
Amendment No. 25 refers to clause 19, so I presume that I can address it now, but not formally move it until we reach clause 19.