SCHEDULE 1FIXED PENALTIES
Withdrawal of notices
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(1)
This paragraph applies if a local authority considers that a fixed penalty notice which an authorised officer acting on its behalf has given to a person (“P”) ought not to have been given.
(2)
The local authority may give notice to P withdrawing the fixed penalty notice.
(3)
If it does so—
(a)
it must repay any amount which has been paid by way of penalty in pursuance of the fixed penalty notice, and
(b)
no proceedings may be brought or continued against P for the offence in question.