> >Mike wrote: >> I'm sure you're right that it's pretty expensive, even though I guess >that >> quite a few cases get settled before it gets to court. But they do >recover >> more than a single year's licence in some/most cases. And of course >there's >> the deterrent effect on others to take into account. > >IMO, it should always cost the perpetrator more in fines and back- >payments than they gained by refusing to buy the licence in the first >place. That is the only deterrent that can exist. They know that >they're not going to prison for the offence and, only in a very small >minority of hard cases, is the boat impounded and sold or destroyed. >If it costs to enforce then so be it. If you don't enforce the rules >(as Tony has posted) then you might as well not have them and we can >all not bother to buy a licence and then, eventually, you get a return >to survival of the fittest. >Roger
Most people are law abiding and will pay for license. What I meant to add to my last email was that I would prefer people to report faults with the system and BW to spend their resourses on fixing the system. I use nabo's waterway reports regularly, it is open to non members as well. Text 07930419981 or www.nabo.org.uk/ww_reports Sue nb Nackered Navvy
