Clause 98
Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill
10:45 am
Phil Woolas (Minister of State (Local Government & Community Cohesion), Department for Communities and Local Government; Oldham East and Saddleworth, Labour)
Finally, we could make regulations providing for a fixed penalty regime in relation to a byelaw for which the Secretary of State kept his or her confirmation powers. We are not doing anything new in terms of existing procedures and powers in some areas, dog fouling being the most well known. We are extending that process to a wider range of byelaws to allow Departments to devolve powers to local authorities to make real the enactment and enforcement of byelaws. On that basis, I commend the clause to the Committee.