SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2Sentencing consolidation: pre-consolidation amendments

PART 2Amendments of the Criminal Justice Act 2003

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(1)

Section 154 (general limit on magistrates’ court’s power to impose imprisonment) is amended as follows.

(2)

In subsection (6), for “goods” substitute “distress”.

(3)

For subsection (8) substitute—

“(8)

In subsection (4), the reference to want of sufficient goods to satisfy a fine is a reference to circumstances where—

(a)

there is power to use the procedure in Schedule 12 to the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 to recover the fine from a person, but

(b)

it appears, after an attempt has been made to exercise the power, that the person’s goods are insufficient to pay the amount outstanding (as defined by paragraph 50(3) of that Schedule).”