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Re: All those No.10 lockdown parties
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Originally Posted by Mick
It is not criminal. If a person was caught breaching the Covid rules, they were issued with a Fixed Penalty Notice, that once paid, the recipient waived any criminal liability and no criminal record.
The problem now for the Police, is that there is a statute of limitations of 6 months on such breaches. So if they see any breaches now that happened over 6 months ago, the police have no legal authority to sanction as per the Coronavirus Act.
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Not for COVID breaches, I believe.
https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.u...%20regulations.
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IS THERE A TIME LIMIT WITHIN WHICH THE POLICE MUST ISSUE THE FIXED PENALTY NOTICE?
There is no time limit for issuing a fixed penalty notice for breach of the coronavirus regulations. However, there is a time limit for bringing criminal charges if you refuse to pay the fine.
If you do not pay the fine, you may be charged with a criminal offence of breaching the coronavirus regulations. The coronavirus regulations were made under the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 which says that if the police or the CPS are going to charge you with an offence, they must do it within:
Three years from the date the offence was committed, and
Six months from the date the prosecutor believes they have enough evidence to charge you.
Put simply, if you failed to pay a fixed penalty notice within 28 days, the police or CPS would then have 6 months in which to charge you with a breach of the coronavirus regulations.
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