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Northern Rail "Fixed penalty notices": what are they?

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Is this a penalty fare or some other "penalty" system of Northern's imagination?

Yet another example of standard form letters that are horrendously badly written and probably make things worse for both sides. In this case "Offences of this nature will receive a criminal conviction" is misworded to the point of being misleading, it implies that conviction is a certainty.
 
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Is this a penalty fare or some other "penalty" system of Northern's imagination?
It's an offer of an out-of-court settlement, using disingenuous wording, to make it sound scary.

No doubt this is done with the blessing of the DfT.
 
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