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Fixed payment notices.
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41.—(1) A bye-law may provide for a person to be served with a notice, specifying a fixed payment, not exceeding such amount as may be prescribed, in respect of a contravention of a bye-law as an alternative to a prosecution for the contravention and where the bye-law so provides it shall specify—
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(a) the amount of the fixed payment, and
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(b) the period within which it must be paid in order to avoid prosecution.
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(2) A notice referred to in subsection (1) shall specify—
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(a) the name and address of the alleged offender;
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(b) in general terms the nature of the contravention alleged to have been committed;
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(c) the date and place of the alleged contravention;
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(d) the amount of the payment;
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(e) the period within which and the place where the fixed payment may be made; and
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(f) that the alleged offender is entitled to disregard the notice and defend a prosecution of the alleged contravention in court.
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