Section 30Part 4 — ENFORCEMENT AND OFFENCES
Issuance of ticket by inspector
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30. (1) An inspector may serve a ticket on any person whom the inspector has reason to believe has committed a ticketable offence by —
delivering a copy of the ticket to the person;
leaving the ticket at the person’s last known place of business or abode; or
sending the ticket by registered mail to the last known place of business or abode of the person.
An inspector who serves a ticket shall complete and sign a certificate of service stating that the ticket was, on the date set out in the certificate, served on the person whom the inspector had reason to believe committed the offence and the certificate shall be evidence that it was on that date served on such person.
A ticket shall be in the form set out in the Schedule and shall —
contain a statement signed by an inspector or deputy inspector certifying that the inspector or deputy inspector has reason to believe that a ticketable offence has been committed contrary to the Regulations; Section 31 Public Lands Act (2024 Revision) Page 16 Revised as at 31st December, 2023 c
include a summary of the facts of the offence and the specific provision of the Regulations that has been contravened;
indicate with reasonable precision, having regard to all the circumstances, the time and place at which the offence was committed;
set out the fixed penalty for the offence established by the Regulations;
set out the options that the person served with the ticket has in responding to it and the time within which that person shall respond;
state that criminal proceedings may not be commenced for the offence until twenty-eight days after service of the ticket;
require the person, in the event that the fixed penalty is not paid nor a plea entered within the period specified in the notice, to attend before the Summary Court to enter a plea on such date as may be specified on the ticket, the date being not earlier than ten days after the expiration of the period specified in paragraph (f); and
state that the ticket may be used as the evidence of the Commission.