Rejected petition A mandatory custodial sentence for anyone deliberately starting fires to fields to cause harm.
With the increasingly dry weather and dry fields, it’s has become a craze for individuals to set alight these fields causing damage to nature, agriculture, homes & life.
Nature has been lost, homes has been lost. The people who put their lives on the line fighting these fires every day should not be put in such a predicament. It’s taking an already stretched emergency service away from attend other critical calls of life endangerment.
There must be a punishment to discourage this craze.
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Fires have been high during the summer, with a water ban in places and record weather temps.
Military help has had to be drafted in to help, some firefighters working round the clock to protect the communities.
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s about something that the Senedd or Welsh Government is not responsible for.
The Government of Wales Act 2006 (GoWA) establishes the extent of the Senedd’s power to make new laws and amend existing law (also known as legislative competence). Schedules 7A and 7B of the 2006 Act set out the issues which are ‘restricted’ or ‘reserved’ - i.e. areas where the UK Parliament, not the Senedd, can legislate.
Sentencing is a reserved matter under paragraph 8(1)(c) of Schedule 7A to GoWA. As a result, it is not possible for the Senedd to take the action called for by your petition.
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