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A
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Bill
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To
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Make further provision
relating to litter and the fouling of land by dogs and to
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allow a local authority to retain the
revenue from fixed penalty notices for
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such offences issued in its area for
the purposes of enforcement.
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Be
it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and
with the advice and
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consent of the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal, and Commons, in this present
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Parliament assembled, and by the authority
of the same, as follows:—
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1 Retention
and use of revenue from fixed penalty notices
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Section 88 (fixed penalty notices for leaving
litter) of the Environmental
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Protection Act 1990 (c. 43) is amended as
follows—
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(a) in
subsection (6) (a) by substituting for the words ‘paid to the Secretary
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of State’ the words ‘retained
by that authority’.
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(b) in
subsection 6) by the addition of subsection (6) (c) “shall be used
by
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that authority for the purpose of enforcement
of the provisions of
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Sections 87 and 88 of the above Act.”
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2 Short
title, commencement and extent
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(1) This
Act may be cited as the Litter and Fouling of Land by Dogs Act 2003.
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(2) This
Act shall come into force three months after it receives Royal Assent.
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(3) This
Act extends to England and Wales only.
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