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| | Wednesday 26th March 2008 |
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| | New Amendments handed in are marked thus  |
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| | Other Amendments not tabled within the required notice period are marked thus  |
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| | Health and Safety (Offences) Bill
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| | To move the following Clause:— |
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| | | ‘After section 33 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, there is |
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| | | (1) | The level of the fine imposed, subject to the maximum stipulated in |
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| | | Schedule 3A, shall be determined by, amongst other relevant |
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| | | considerations, the financial assets and income of the person or employer |
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| | | (2) | The maximum fines in Schedule 3A shall, by order made by statutory |
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| | | instrument, be increased, on 1st January, annually by the increase in the |
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| | | general level of earnings for the year to the previous 31st March.”’. |
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| | To move the following Clause:— |
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| | | ‘After section 33 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, there is |
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| | | (1) | Crown bodies shall be subject to statutory enforcement of this Act |
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| | | (2) | Imprisonment for offences listed in Schedule 3A shall be confined to |
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| | | those health and safety cases where, in the opinion of the magistrates or |
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| | | judges concerned, the case involves— |
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| | | (a) | recklessness about the possibility of serious harm, |
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| | | (b) | deception intended to undermine enforcement, |
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| | | (c) | the deliberate creation of serious risks with a view to profit, or |
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| | | (d) | serious neglect leading to major injury or death.”’. |
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