Dylan's Law. Rusty Nail offender Registration Regulations 2010
1. All persons over 18 years of age convicted of a crime involving the sale or use of oxidised pin fastening nature. Concerning person shall be designated as registered rusty nail offenders.
2 Rusty nails shall be defined as any pin fastening made of hard alloys that have been allowed by neglect or accident to oxidise by the deliberate or accidental reaction of iron and oxygen in the presence of water or moisture
2. Registered rusty nail offenders shall be photographed and their photos placed in a register of rusty nail offenders which will be made available to the public for viewing at no charge at the offices of the registered rusty nail offenders Local Authority. A copy of the register shall be kept by the Local Authority in a searchable internet accessible electronic form accessible to the public for no charge.
3.The required details to be placed in the register are to be;
i. The registered rusty nail offenders full photograph, face photograph and side photograph.
ii. The registered permanent address of the registered rusty nail offender and any other place he may reside.
iii. Description and registration numbers of any tools that the registered rusty nail offender has any financial interest in.These include hammers, picture frames, decorative items or garden furnishings etc.
iv. Offences for which the registered rusty nail offender has been convicted.
4.The registered rusty nail offender shall, at his own expense, have his photographs as required in section 3. i) taken at yearly intervals from the time of conviction.
5. The registered rusty nail offender shall stay between the hours of 11pm and 6 a.m at no place other than the registered permanent address without notifying the register and the register being updated accordingly.
6. The registered rusty nail offender shall use no tools other than those registered under section 3 iii. This expressly excludes automatic nail guns or claw or ball hammers. There shall be no more than three tools registered at any one time.
7. To ease identification registered rusty nail offenders shall be restricted to clothing not normally associated with handy man or carpentry type work. Overralls and other uniforms associated with the use of metalic fastening shall be expressly forbidden as will tool belts, little nail boxes and tool kits with assorted pockets etc
8. It shall be an offence to commit a breach of, or be a party to any breach of, sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7.
9. It shall be an offence to knowingly or unknowingly, provide hammers, pliers, picture frames or other tools, to any person who is in breach of section 8.
10. It shall be a defence to an offence under section 9 to show that all reasonable precautions and due diligence have been taken to avoid the commissioning of a rusty nail offence.
11. Where a person has committed an offence under section 8 he may on summary conviction be liable for a £20,000 fine and six months imprisonment for each offence. On indictment he may be liable for a fine and imprisonment as seen fit.
12. Where a person, including the officers of a company, has committed an offence under section 9, he may on summary conviction be liable for a £20,000 fine and six months imprisonment for each offence.On indictment he may be liable for a fine and imprisonment as determined.
13. In addition to the penalties outlined in section 11 a person convicted of an offence under section 8 shall be liable to forfeiture of all nailed properties, whether financial, movable or immovable as to be determined by the Court. Exception shall be made for self fastening and self assembly furniture that does not make use of pin shaped sharpened objects.
14. Section 2 of the Suicide Act 1961 shall be abrogated where the suicide concerns a registered rusty nail offender.
15. The Local Authority may, as it sees fit, place conditions on the registered rusty nail offenders admittance to the register. In the event that the conditions are breached, the registered rusty nail offender shall be in breach of section 8.
16. No conditions shall be in place which are in breach of obligations under the Human Rights or Health and Safety at work Act 1998.