{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reading-borough-council-act-2013/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reading-borough-council-act-2013/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukla/2013/4",
  "legislation_title": "Reading Borough Council Act 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reading-borough-council-act-2013",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Fixed penalty offences",
  "text": "(1) Where on any occasion an authorised officer, constable or (by virtue of section 15(1)) a community support officer finds a person who he has reason to believe has on that occasion committed in the borough a relevant offence or an offence under section 6 the officer, constable or community support officer may give that person a notice offering him the opportunity of discharging any liability to conviction for the offence by payment of a fixed penalty.\n(2) Section 8 shall apply in respect of fixed penalty notices under this section.\n(3) An authorised officer, constable or (by virtue of section 15(1)) a community support officer may not exercise the powers under subsection (1) and section 8 shall have no effect until the levels of fixed penalties set by the council in accordance with section 9 have come into force for the first time in accordance with section 10.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2013/4/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:44:56.131211+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}