New Bill Proposed

[Guest lightnix]

A Private Members Bill has been reintroduced after it ran out of Parliamentary time last year.

 

The Health and Safety Offences Bill is aimed at raising the level of fines for breaches of health and safety legislation.

 

 

Heads Up ! :(

[gil-galad]

I didn't think there was a limit to the fines imposable by a health and safety prosecution.

 

I do know that you have to disclose it for ever unlike a criminal prosecution which has a time limit.

[Dave]

I didn't think there was a limit to the fines imposable by a health and safety prosecution.

Yes, if the case is tried in a Crown Court. There are limits to the fines that a Magistrates Court can impose. But magistrates can, in some cases, send you to a Crown Court for sentencing if they consider that they can't impose a sufficiently severe penalty!!

I do know that you have to disclose it for ever unlike a criminal prosecution which has a time limit.

I'm sure that's not the situation. An H&S prosecution is a criminal prosecution, period.

 

The law that enables you, in many situations, to not have to disclose certain criminal convictions is the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Although there are various exceptions and special cases under this act, I have checked and have been unable to find anything related to prosecutions under the HSWA etc.

 

Dave

Barrack-room (or should that be blue-room?) lawyer :(