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Paragraph 11 Power to issue fixed penalty notices for offences on the railway

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An accredited person whose accreditation specifies that this paragraph applies to him shall, in, on or in the vicinity of policed premises, have the powers of a constable in uniform and of an authorised constable to give a penalty notice under Chapter 1 of Part 1 of the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 (fixed penalty notices in respect of offences of disorder) in respect of the following offences—

(a)

an offence under section 55 of the 1949 Act (trespassing on a railway); and

(b)

an offence under section 56 of that Act (throwing stones etc. at trains or other things on railways).