Public Address | Cafe | Legal Beagle: Littering!

Rochelle Wilson

Sun, 17 Jun 2018 10:43:10 +1200

An excellent submission Graeme. Thank you.
And I would add that a moral, education approach to littering from Kindergarten School on-wards is essential. We must all be taught/shown that litter here goes there .. into gutters, rivers, the sea; into animals.
I collect litter very walk [in a plastic bag…

andin

Sun, 17 Jun 2018 10:01:49 +1200

a bill whose sole purpose is to change a “$400” to a “$1000” in one section of the Litter Act.
All it will do will piss off a lot people who will then cry its PC culture gone mad.

simon g

Sat, 16 Jun 2018 15:21:32 +1200

Because National wanted to give Scott Simpson something to do? Preferably something that does not involve being interviewed on Morning Report.

Craig Young

Sat, 16 Jun 2018 14:05:11 +1200

Excellent submission, but surely problem littering should be included within the Summary Offences Act, along with other public nuisance low-level offences? Why does it warrant a stand-alone statute in the first place?

Maui Smith

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 15:45:51 +1200

Agree. But I think s375 of the Criminal Procedure Act prevents a Judicial Officer from entering a conviction if the offence can be an infringement offence, no matter how the proceedings were bought to court.

It will be better to be charged with a Category 1 offence, as the Judicial…

Public Address

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 15:45:51 +1200

Discussion from blog post.