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The maximum fine the magistrates' court can impose is £5,000. The Criminal Justice Act 2003 [1] has provisions to increase these maximum penalties. Judges in the Crown Court can impose life sentences and there is no upper limit on the fine that may be imposed for particular offences.
All criminal proceedings start at a magistrates' court. Summary offences are lesser crimes (for example, public order offences and most driving matters) that can be punished under the magistrates' courts maximum sentencing powers of 12 months imprisonment, and/or an unlimited fine. [2]
The maximum fines available for many regulation offences used to be relatively low at the magistrates court, however the Health and Safety (Offences) Act 2008, [4] and Section 85 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 [5] (which came into force on 16 January 2009 and 12 March 2015 respectively) had the effect of ...
Section 31 - Increase of fines for certain summary offences; Section 32 - Other provisions as to maximum fines; Section 33 - Penalty for offences under section 3 of the Explosive Substances Act 1883; Section 34 - Power of magistrates' court to remit a person under 17 for trial to a juvenile court in certain circumstances
The prescribed sum, within the meaning of the said section 225(8), may be referred to in legislation as the "statutory maximum". Northern Ireland. The prescribed sum is defined by article 4(8) of the Fines and Penalties (Northern Ireland) Order 1984 (S.I. 1984/703 (N.I. 3)). It can be altered under article 17 of that Order.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration is proposing to raise to $5 million the maximum fine it can impose for making misstatements to CFIUS, a powerful U.S. committee that screens foreign ...
The "statutory maximum", which is the maximum fine which can be imposed by a summary court for a triable either way statutory offence, is similarly defined by the Interpretation Act 1978 so as to correspond to the "prescribed sum" (in effect to the maximum (level 5) fine on the standard scale, except in Scotland).
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