Day Fines Bill

1. Title

This Act is the Day Fines Bill 2020.

2. Commencement

This Act comes into force the day after it receives Royal assent.

3. Purpose

The purpose of this act is to introduce a formula to turn the old base fine punishment system to a day fine system, which fines people based on their income instead of a set rate.

4. Interpretation

Base fine is defined as a fine where fines are based on a set rate, regardless of wealth or income.

Day fine is defined as a fine equal to 1/60th of a person’s daily income. (These fines can be stacked so that 5 days fine is 5/60th of a person’s daily income.) This will be roughly a third a person’s daily income.

5. Replacement

1) All base fines, will be set to a day fine decided by a set formula.

2) The formula is: the base fine in dollars divided by 150 will equal one days fine.

3) Each fine must be rounded in quarter days.

B.330 - Day Fines Bill was authored by /u/theowotringle and is sponsored by the Labour Party (Party Bill).

Debate will conclude at 6 PM, 21/09/2020.