WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1994
BILL SETTING OUT STANDARD SCALE FOR FINES INTRODUCED
A BILL $100,000 WAS (WEDNESDAY).
* * * * *
SETTING OUT A STANDARD SCALE FOR FINES
THE LEGISLATIVE INTRODUCED INTO
NOT EXCEEDING TODAY COUNCIL
MOVING THE SECOND READING OF THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (AMENDMENT) MATHEWS, SAID THE BILL 1994, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE HON JEREMY PROPOSED STANDARD SCALE WOULD ENABLE THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF FINES TO BE INCREASED FROM TIME TO TIME BY A SINGLE ORDER OF THE COUNCIL IN ORDER TO REFLECT THE EFFECT OF INFLATION.
GOVERNOR IN
THE FINES IN
HE SAID AT PRESENT, THE PROCESS OF INCREASING LEGISLATION WAS COMPLICATED, TIME-CONSUMING AND WASTEFUL OF RESOURCES, SINCE THE INCREASES WERE DONE ON A FINE BY FINE BASIS.
THAT
NEEDS TO
BE
TO REVISED HAS HE SAID: "EACH PROVISION
HAS TO BE IDENTIFIED; THE DATE OF THE LAST ADJUSTMENT TO THE FINE
DATE HAS TO BE ASCERTAINED; THE EXTENT OF INFLATION SINCE THAT DETERMINED; AND AN APPROPRIATE INCREASE IN THE FINE DECIDED UPON.
+I A
PARTICULAR ADDED.
TO AMENDMENT
THAT
** APPROVED, HE
LEGISLATIVE INSTRUMENT SPECIFYING THE
FINE THEN HAS TO BE PREPARED AND FORMALLY
WHICH COMPRISED
MR MATHEWS SAID THE PROPOSED STANDARD SCALE, SIX LEVELS AND RANGED FROM $2,000 AT LEVEL 1 TO $100,000 AT LEVEL WOULD GREATLY SIMPLIFY THE PROCESS.
THE
OF
WILL BE 'CONVERTED HE SAID: "ALL FINES NOT EXCEEDING $100,000 INTO THE APPROPRIATE LEVELS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS IN BILL AND THE VALUES OF THE LEVELS WILL BECOME THE MAXIMUM AMOUNTS THESE FINES.
TIME ΤΟ IN
**THESE MAXIMUM AMOUNTS CAN BE INCREASED FROM TIME TO REFLECT THE EFFECT OF INFLATION SIMPLY BY AN ORDER OF THE GOVERNOR COUNCIL," HE SAID.
MR MATHEWS ALSO STRESSED THAT ADJUSTMENT BY THIS ONLY POSSIBLE TO CATER FOR INFLATION.
METHOD
WAS
OTHER ADJUSTMENTS WOULD
HE
ALSO
ADDED THAT
BY TO BE DONE SPECIFIC AMENDING LEGISLATION AND WOULD HAVE TO BE JUSTIFIED CASE-BY-CASE BASIS, HE SAID.
COMPARATIVELY RARE, WOULD NOT BE COVERED BY THE STANDARD WOULD CONTINUE TO BE REVIEWED INDIVIDUALLY.
CONTINUE
MEANS
OF
ON A
FINES
EXCEEDING
WHICH $100,000,
WERE SCALE, BUT
DEBATE ON THE BILL WAS ADJOURNED.
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