Animals and Wildlife (Penalties, Protections and Powers) (Scotland) Bill 5 Chapter 1—Animal welfare, animal health and wildlife: offences and penalties (2) The offences in relation to which fixed penalty notices may be issued must be specified in or by virtue of regulations under subsection (1). (3) The offences which may be specified are offences— (a) under— 5 (i) this Act, (ii) orders or regulations made under this Act (whether made before, on or after the coming into force of this section), (iia) the Bees Act 1980, (iib) orders made under the Bees Act 1980 (whether made before, on or 10 after the coming into force of this section), or (iii) another enactment (whether made or, as the case may be, passed before, on or after the coming into force of this section) which the Scottish Ministers consider relates to animal health, and (b) in relation to which the maximum penalty on conviction does not exceed 15 imprisonment for a term of 6 months or a fine of level 5 on the standard scale (or both). (3A) Regulations under subsection (1) may in particular include provision— (a) subject to subsections (3C) and (3D), prescribing the form of a fixed penalty notice, 20 (b) prescribing the persons or categories of persons who are authorised to issue fixed penalty notices, (c) conferring on the Scottish Ministers the power to authorise a person to issue fixed penalty notices, (d) conferring powers to enter premises (other than dwelling-houses) in 25 connection with the issuing of fixed penalty notices, (e) about the circumstances in which fixed penalty notices may be issued (including the test which must be satisfied before a person authorised to issue such notices may do so), (f) about the circumstances in which fixed penalty notices may not be 30 issued, (g) about the circumstances in which fixed penalty notices may be withdrawn (including the effects of such withdrawal), (h) prescribing the amount of the fixed penalty which is to apply to an offence, being not more than level 5 on the standard scale, 35 (i) prescribing the person to whom payment may be made (who need not be the person who issued the fixed penalty notice), (j) prescribing the period of time within which a fixed penalty may be paid (in this section, the “payment period”), (k) about the circumstances in which a person to whom a fixed penalty 40 notice is issued may decline the notice or otherwise object to or challenge it (including the period within which the person may do so), 6 Animals and Wildlife (Penalties, Protections and Powers) (Scotland) Bill Chapter 1—Animal welfare, animal health and wildlife: offences and penalties (l) about the effects of failing to decline or otherwise object to or challenge a fixed penalty notice before the end of the period prescribed for doing so (including that such failure is deemed to be acceptance of the notice), (m) conferring on the person who issued the fixed penalty notice or the 5 person to whom payment may be made the power to extend the payment period in any particular case if the person considers it appropriate to do so, (n) about the methods by which fixed penalties may be paid, (o) for the amount of a fixed penalty to be discounted or increased by an 10 amount or percentage in circumstances prescribed by the regulations (but not so as to make the amount payable more than level 5 on the standard scale), (p) prescribing the effect of paying a fixed penalty within the payment period (for example, that no proceedings may be brought in respect of 15 the offence to which the fixed penalty notice relates), (q) about the consequences of not paying a fixed penalty within the payment period (including how liability to pay the penalty may be enforced), (r...