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Understanding our prosecution process This page gives you information about how we investigate and prosecute TT2 Byelaw offences in the magistrate’s
Alternative to prosecution
We may offer you a warning (on condition of payment of the unpaid toll notice charges) as an alternative to prosecution.
If a warning is offered, this will be confirmed in writing and the person can avoid prosecution by complying with one of the following conditions:
a) Pay the unpaid toll charges in full, OR
a) Set up a payment scheme and pay agreed minimum amounts within the time periods specified.
If a warning is offered and the conditions are not met then we will continue with our investigation, which could lead to you being prosecuted.
I'm pretty sure that if I started writing to people demanding money in exchange for not prosecuting them, I could end up in a spot of bother? Can a prosecutor, absent statutory authority, accept a cash payment in exchange for not bringing proceedings?
I suspect the difference is that the toll charges have a statutory basis (I assume) and it’s not just a bribe not to prosecute.
Here's a link to the full page...
Understanding our prosecution process This page gives you information about how we investigate and prosecute TT2 Byelaw offences in the magistrate’s
they also intimate that as part of Mags sentencing UTCNS are still payable...[which is a blatant untruth as UTCs are not relevent in mags]
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