Section 30A: Fixed Penalty Notice
This section is inserted by COVID-19 (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2020, section 8.
consolidated text (as at 2015, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
30A. Fixed Penalty Notice
(1) Where a person commits an offence specified in the Fifth
Schedule, an authorised officer or police officer who detects the offence shall
require the person to elect whether to accept a Fixed Penalty Notice (FPN) or for
the offence to be reported with a view to proceedings being taken against him
before a Court.
(2) Where the person elects to accept an FPN pursuant to subsection
(1), one copy of the FPN, in such form as may be prescribed and drawn up in
quadruplicate, shall immediately be served on him, calling upon him to pay within
21 days such fine as may be prescribed at the appropriate District Court.
(3) The authorised officer or police officer who detects the offence
shall –
(a) forward one copy of the FPN to the Permanent Secretary
or the Commissioner of Police, as the case may be;
(b) forward one copy to the appropriate District Court; and
(c) retain the fourth copy.