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Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill [HL]

moved Amendment No. 113: 113: Clause 37, page 15, line 25, leave out ““Where the relevant offence”” and insert ““A relevant offence must be one that”” The noble Lord said: The purpose of Amendments Nos. 113 and 116 is to ensure that the fixed penalty procedure should be used only for relatively minor offences which, for the sake of argument, would otherwise be subject to the procedure of summary trial. It is not appropriate to use the fixed penalty procedure if an offence would otherwise be eligible for trial by jury. In such cases, things are much more complex—too complex, we feel, to be dealt with by a simple fixed penalty. This is, at this stage, a probing amendment. The enthusiasm with which we pursue it might be affected by what the Minster envisages as the maximum amount of such a fixed penalty. I beg to move.