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Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012
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87Power to amend standard scale of fines for summary offencesE+W
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(1)The Secretary of State may by order substitute for the sums for the time being specified as levels 1 to 4 on the standard scale in section 37(2) of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (standard scale of fines for summary offences) such other sums as the Secretary of State considers appropriate.
(2)The power under subsection (1) may not be exercised so as to alter the ratio of one of those levels to another.
(3)In section 143 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (power to alter sums including standard scale of fines for summary offences), in subsection (3)(b), after “subsection (1) above” insert “ or section 87 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 ”.
(4)In section 37 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (standard scale of fines for summary offences), in subsection (3), at the end insert “ or section 87 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 ”.
(5)An order under this section is to be made by statutory instrument.
(6)A statutory instrument containing an order under this section may not be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.
(7)An order under this section does not affect fines for offences committed before the order comes into force.
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I1S. 87 in force at 28.5.2014 by S.I. 2014/1291, art. 2(c)
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