Part of Criminal Justice and Police Bill – in a Public Bill Committee am 10:15 am ar 15 Chwefror 2001.
Mr David Lock
Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department
10:15,
15 Chwefror 2001
We expect the warning notice to be given with the fixed penalty notice, in the usual course of events. We expect that the two notices would usually be given at the same time. In that context, ``given'' means precisely that. The notice is physically served or otherwise clearly brought to the attention of the defendant, in the same way that anything else is served. However, it would not be right to remove the possibility entirely—although I accept that it would be unusual to exercise it—for a warning notice to be given at some other time. It would not have to be acknowledged. It will say only where a trial will take place if the defendant wants to contest the penalty and wants the right to a trial. Of course, it depends on whether the defendant wishes to make that request.
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