Health Bill

I am sure that it would be down to the enforcement authorities, which we shall discuss under Clause 10, to have their own administrative arrangements for how they operate in their area. I do not want to spend—indeed, waste—a lot of the Committee’s time speculating on how, in different parts of the country, fixed-penalty notices may or may not be administered under the Bill. When enforcement authorities are in place, it will be for them to ensure that the law is enforced, and a range of actions that they can take will be set out in the Bill and in delegated legislation. I understand the noble Lord’s concerns, but I suspect that at the beginning, when fixed-penalty notices were first introduced, people thought that civilisation would end. Civilisation has not ended, and fixed-penalty notices have been a methodology for reducing the burdens on courts and used very effectively to secure desirable social outcomes in a number of areas, including traffic. Clause 9 agreed to. Schedule 1 [Fixed penalties]: