PART 6ALTERNATIVES TO PROSECUTION
CHAPTER 1PENALTY NOTICES
Penalty notices
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1
A police officer who has reason to believe that a person over the age of 18 has committed a penalty offence may give that person a penalty notice in respect of the offence.
2
Unless the notice is given in a police station, the police officer giving it must be in uniform.
3
In this Chapter “penalty notice” means a notice offering the opportunity, by paying a penalty in accordance with this Chapter, to discharge any liability to be convicted of the offence to which the notice relates.