http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/664/schedule/4/paragraph/33The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Fines on Summary Conviction) Regulations 2015enCRIMINAL LAW, ENGLAND AND WALESStatute Law Database2024-02-04Expert Participation2020-12-01 These Regulations make provision in relation to fines and maximum fines which may be imposed on summary conviction, for the purpose of implementing section 85 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (“the Act”). Section 85(1) of the Act, which is commenced alongside these Regulations, provides that a relevant offence which is, on the commencement day, punishable on summary conviction by a fine or maximum fine of £5,000 or more (however expressed) becomes punishable on summary conviction by a fine of any amount. An offence is relevant if, immediately before the commencement of section 85(1), it is a common law offence or it is contained in an Act or an instrument made under an Act (whether or not the offence is in force at that time). SCHEDULE 4Consequential amendments: fines or maximum fines of numerical amounts of £5,000 or morePart 1Public General ActsLicensing Act <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2003/17" id="c00076" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="2003" Number="0017">2003 (c.17)</Citation>331The Licensing Act 2003 is amended as follows.2In section 136 (unauthorised licensable activities), in subsection (4), for “a fine not exceeding £20,000” substitute “a fine”.3In section 137 (exposing alcohol for unauthorised sale), in subsection (3), for “a fine not exceeding £20,000” substitute “a fine”.4In section 147A (persistently selling alcohol to children), in subsection (8), for “a fine not exceeding £20,000” substitute “a fine”.5In section 156 (prohibition on sale of alcohol on moving vehicles), in subsection (2), for “a fine not exceeding £20,000” substitute “a fine”.6In section 157 (power to prohibit sale of alcohol on trains), in subsection (6), for “a fine not exceeding £20,000” substitute “a fine”.7In section 161 (closure orders for identified premises), in subsection (7), for “a fine not exceeding £20,000” substitute “a fine”.8In section 165 (consideration of closure order by magistrates’ court), in subsection (8), for “a fine not exceeding £20,000” substitute “a fine”.9In section 168 (provision about decisions under section 167), in subsection (9), for “a fine not exceeding £20,000” substitute “a fine”.Section 147A was inserted by the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 (c.38), section 23(1); section 147A(8) was amended by the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c.13), section 118(2).Sch. 4 para. 33 in force at 12.3.2015, see reg. 1(1)
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, in subsection (8), for “a fine not exceeding £20,000” substitute “a fine”.
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