Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980

[F1 16L Notice of conviction and penalty E+W

(1) The Lord Chancellor must secure that a person who is convicted of an offence under section 16H is given a notice of conviction and penalty.

(2) A notice of conviction and penalty is an electronic notification which—

(a) sets out each penalty imposed on the offender under section 16I;

(b) specifies a magistrates’ court for the purposes of section 16K;

(c) requires the offender to pay the sums that the offender is liable to pay under section 16I—

(i) within the relevant 28-day period, and

(ii) in the manner specified in the notice.

(3) The relevant 28-day period is the period of 28 days beginning with the day on which the person’s conviction took effect.

(4) In this section—

• “electronic notification” has the meaning given by section 16G(4);

• “penalty” means—

  (a)

  a fine,

  (b)

  penalty points,

  (c)

  compensation,

  (d)

  prosecution costs, or

  (e)

  a surcharge;

• “penalty points” has the same meaning as in the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 16G-16M and cross-heading inserted (7.11.2023) by Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), ss. 3, 51(4); S.I. 2023/1194, reg. 2(a)