Originally Posted by
Maninthebar
The purpose of much Regulation is to give a sanction against those failing to abide by it. You ask how this 'affects the nutters'. It affects them when they are identified and enables them to be the subject of a legal process that did not exist before. This is the point you are missing
The question you should be asking is the extent to which any effort will be devoted to detecting and prosecuting those without licences
How do you identify them if they haven't bothered to register, and even then the existing legislation would cover charges anyway, ie. breaking the ANO.
Originally Posted by
Maninthebar
The purpose of much Regulation is to give a sanction against those failing to abide by it. You ask how this 'affects the nutters'. It affects them when they are identified and enables them to be the subject of a legal process that did not exist before. This is the point you are missing
The question you should be asking is the extent to which any effort will be devoted to detecting and prosecuting those without licences
A police officer acquaintance has informed me that the Police are supposed to be briefed 'shortly' on the new legislation.
He holds little hope of it actually happening...