# Highways Act 1980, Paragraph 1

Extent: E+W
Status: prospective

(1) An authorised officer of a highway authority may, if he has reason to believe that a person is committing or has committed a fixed penalty offence, give him a fixed penalty notice in relation to that offence.
(2) In this Schedule “fixed penalty notice” means a notice offering a person the opportunity of discharging any liability to conviction for a fixed penalty offence by payment of a penalty.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/66/schedule/22B/paragraph/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/highways-act-1980/schedule-22B/paragraph-1
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