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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 1 January 2024 - onwards
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21. Fixed payments

(1) Where a person commits an offence under section 20(1), the Commission may serve a notice (in this section referred to as a "fixed payment notice") on the person.

(2) The fixed payment notice shall -

(a) be in the prescribed form,

(b) state that the person is alleged to have committed an offence under section 20(1),

(c) state that the person is not obliged to pay the fixed payment,

(d) state that, if the fixed payment is paid to the Commission by the date specified in it, a prosecution in respect of the offence under section 20(1) will not be initiated, and

(e) contain details of how the fixed payment is to be paid.

(3) The fixed payment notice may be served on the person:

(a) where the Commission has been provided with the person's email address, by sending it to the person by electronic means to that email address, provided that a record that the email has been sent to the person is made for the sender by the email system used;

(b) by delivering it to the person;