SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 8Minor and consequential amendments
Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43)
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1
Amend section 85 (power to remit fine) as follows.
2
After subsection (2A) insert—
2B
Where the court remits the whole or part of the fine after a work order has been made under Schedule 6 to the Courts Act 2003 (discharge of fines by unpaid work), it shall also reduce the number of hours specified in the order by a number which bears the same proportion as the amount remitted bears to the whole sum or, as the case may be, shall revoke the order.
3
In subsection (3), for “or (2A)” substitute “
, (2A) or (2B)
”
.