Clause 30 - Fixed penalty notices: authorised officers
Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Bill
3:30 pm
Mrs Anne McIntosh (Shadow Minister, Environment and Transport; Vale of York, Conservative)
I beg to move amendment No. 53, in page 27, leave out lines 40 to 42.
The amendment relates to a subject that the Minister referred to earlier: authorised officers being given adequate training. We seek to strike out from clause 30 for probing purposes the lines defining an authorised officer as
''an employee of the authority who is authorised in writing by the authority for the purpose of giving notices under section 43(1)''.
Will the Minister confirm whether, when that authority in writing is given, there will also be provision for at least a minimum amount of training in respect of the power to require a name and address under clause 28 and the power relating to fixed penalty notices? Will there be a specific direction as to how authorised officers are to act in that regard?