Debate contribution: Penalty Notices
Debate contribution by Mr Jon Burrows on .
- MLA
- Mr Jon Burrows
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 16 September 2025
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Penalty Notices
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5111253
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The Minister said that the proposal to extend penalty notices applies only to lower-level offences. Will the Minister explain why one of the offences included is assault occasioning actual bodily harm (AOABH), which includes breaking someone's nose, smashing someone's teeth out or rendering someone unconscious? Does she consider that AOABH can ever be a serious crime? If not, why is it in the proposal?
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