53 Failure to comply with attendance notice: penalty notice

53  Failure to comply with attendance notice: penalty notice

(1)     Where a [local authority] which has given an attendance notice to a person under section 46 has reason to believe that the person has committed an offence under section 51 relating to the notice, the authority may give the person a penalty notice in respect of the offence.

(2)     A penalty notice is a notice offering a person the opportunity of discharging any liability to conviction in respect of the offence to which the notice relates by payment of a penalty in accordance with the notice.

(3)     Where a person is given a penalty notice—

(a)     proceedings for the offence to which the notice relates may not

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