Criminal Penalties etc. (Increase) Order 1984
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1984/447 |
| Year | 1984 |
1984 No. 447
MAGISTRATES' COURTS
The Criminal Penalties etc. (Increase) Order 198426thMarch 1984
5thApril 1984
1stMay 1984
Whereas it appears to me that there has been a change in the value of money since 29th July 1977 justifying, as regards the sums specified in the provisions mentioned in section 143(2) of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980(a), the sums substituted therefor by this Order:
Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section 143(1) of that Act(b), as in force in England and Wales and as extended by the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (Isle of Man) Order 1983(c), I hereby make the following Order:—
1.— (1) This Order may be cited as the Criminal Penalties etc. (Increase) Order 1984 and, subject to paragraph (2) below, shall come into operation on 1st May 1984.
(2) This Order shall not affect the amount of any fine imposed, nor the amount of any compensation order made, in respect of any offence committed before 1st May 1984 nor the amount of any fine imposed in respect of any act or omission taking place before that date.
(3) In this Order "the 1980 Act" means the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980.
2.— (1) For the sums specified in the provisions set out in column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order and generally described in column 2 of that Schedule, the present amounts of which are set out in column 3, there shall be substituted the sums set out in column 4.
(a) 1980 c.43; subsection (2) was amended by section 48 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c.48).
(b) Subsection (1) was substituted by section 48 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982.
(c) S.I. 1983/1898; section 143(1) refers to provisions specified in section 143(2), only certain paragraphs of which are extended to the Isle of Man by S.I. 1983/1898. Accordingly, the only increases made by this Order which have effect in the Isle of Man are those referred to in entries 4, 10, 11 and 13 of Schedule 1 and in Schedule 4.
(2) For the sums specified in the Tables set out in paragraph 1 of Schedule 4 to the 1980 Act and section 31(3A) of the Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973(a), being sums for the purpose of determining the maximum periods of imprisonment applicable in default of payment in respect of certain orders of the magistrates' court and Crown Court respectively, the present amounts of which are set out in column 1 of Schedule 2 to this Order and which relate to the maximum period of imprisonment set out in column 3 of that Schedule, there shall be substituted the sums set out in column 2.
(3) For the sums specified in the provisions set out in column 1 of Schedule 3 to this Order (which provisions are mentioned in Schedule 6A to the 1980 Act(b)) and generally described in column 2 of that Schedule, the present amounts of which are set out in column 3, there shall be substituted the sums set out in column 4.
(4) For the sums specified in section 37(2) of the Criminal Justice Act 1982(c), which are set out in column 2 of Schedule 4 to this Order and which represent the amounts of the fines on the levels of the standard scale set out in column 1 of that Schedule, there shall be substituted the sums set out in column 3.
Leon Brittan, One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.
Home Office.
26th March 1984.
(a) 1973 c.62; subsection (3A) was inserted into section 31 by section 69(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1982.
(b) Schedule 6A was inserted into the 1980 Act by...
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