Clause 17 - Penalty points
Road Safety Bill [Lords]
5:15 pm
Stephen Ladyman (Minister of State, Department for Transport; South Thanet, Labour)
The right hon. Gentleman might be mixing up the fixed penalty notices—for which the circumstances and the points will be prescribed—with the situation in which someone wishes to take their chances and go to court, either because they think that there are mitigating circumstances, or because they think that they are not guilty. If the court finds that person guilty, it has flexibility in how it punishes that person.