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Posted By Crim
This is an extract from the latest HSE Construction Infonet can anyone shed any light on what this is?
"pleaded guilty to two offences under Section 33(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974. He was fined £1,000, and ordered to pay costs of £1,149 plus a Victims' Surcharge of £15".
The above relates to a prosecution where Polish workers were allowed to sleep on site and a fire was foreseeable.
No fire occurred but the contractor was fined £1,000, and ordered to pay costs of £1,149 plus a Victims' Surcharge of £15.
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Posted By Jack
It’s a Home Office initiative. Th surcharge is paid into a fund to help improve services for victims of crime. It’s a flat rate regardless of the size of the fine. Been arround for a couple of years I think
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Posted By Crim
Thanks Jack, I have to say £15.00 is not a lot - I wonder how far will that go?
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Posted By Jack
But it is added to every fine following conviction for a criminal offence in court, so I guess it mounts up! (There was talk of it being added to fixed penalty fines ‘at a later date’, too). It was introduced by John Reid as part of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 “to rebalance the criminal justice system in favour of victims”.
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Posted By Crim
If added to every fine for criminal conviction in court I wonder why I have never seen any mention of it in reports of HSE prosecutions before?
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