http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/43/section/47Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980An Act to consolidate certain enactments relating to the jurisdiction of, and the practice and procedure before, magistrates’ courts and the functions of justices’ clerks, and to matters connected therewith, with amendments to give effect to recommendations of the Law Commission.1980-11-01texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2026-09-21Expert Participation2026-06-29 Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980s. 1(6A)Criminal Justice Act 2003Sch. 36 para. 8(5)s. 336(3) (4)Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980s. 1(7A)Criminal Justice Act 2003Sch. 36 para. 8(6)s. 336(3) (4)Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980Sch. 6A (entry)Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000Sch. 7 para. 69Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980s. 12(2A)Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022s. 4(3)s. 51(4)Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980s. 12(5A)-(5F)Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022s. 4(6)s. 51(4)Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980s. 17ZA-17ZCJudicial Review and Courts Act 2022s. 6(2)s. 51(4)Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980s. 22A(1A)-(1E)Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022s. 6(3)(b)s. 51(4)Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980s. 17BAJudicial Review and Courts Act 2022s. 7s. 51(4)Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980s. 24ZA 24ZBJudicial Review and Courts Act 2022s. 8s. 51(4)Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980s. 17B(1A)-(1F)Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022s. 9(2)(b)s. 51(4)Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980s. 17B(5)Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022s. 9(2)(d)s. 51(4)Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980s. 23(1A)-(1G)Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022s. 9(4)(b)s. 51(4)Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980s. 23(4A)(4B)Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022s. 9(4)(d)s. 51(4)Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980s. 24BAJudicial Review and Courts Act 2022s. 9(5)s. 51(4)Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980s. 17A(1A)Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022Sch. 2 para. 6(2)(b)s. 51(4)Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980s. 18(1)-(1B)Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022Sch. 2 para. 6(7)(a)s. 51(4)Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980s. 18(4A)(4B)Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022Sch. 2 para. 6(7)(b)s. 51(4)Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980s. 18(6)Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022Sch. 2 para. 6(7)(c)s. 51(4)Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980s. 20(7A)(7B)Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022Sch. 2 para. 6(8)(c)s. 51(4)Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980s. 22(2A)-(2E)Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022Sch. 2 para. 6(9)(a)s. 51(4)Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980s. 24A(1A)Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022Sch. 2 para. 6(11)(b)s. 51(4)Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980s. 75ACrime and Courts Act 2013s. 26(1)s. 61(3)Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980s. 85(5)Crime and Courts Act 2013s. 26(4)s. 61(3)Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980s. 139ACrime and Courts Act 2013s. 26(6)s. 61(3)Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980s. 145(1A)Children, Schools and Families Act 2010Sch. 3 para. 8(3)s. 21(8) 27s. 29(4)(b)Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980s. 145(1A)Children, Schools and Families Act 2010Sch. 4 Pt. 2s. 21(8) 27s. 29(4)(b)Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980s. 1(6A)Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015Sch. 11 para. 3(4)s. 95(1)art. 3Sch. 1 para. 77 Part I47Where any enactment requires, expressly or by implication, that a summons in respect of an offence shall be issued or served within a specified period after the commission of the offence, and service of the summons may under rules of court be effected by post, then, if under the rules service of the summons is not treated as proved, but it is shown that a letter containing the summons was posted at such time as to enable it to be delivered in the ordinary course of post within that period, a second summons may be issued on the same information; and the enactment shall have effect, in relation to that summons, as if the specified period were a period running from the return day of the original summons.Words in s. 47 substituted (1.9.2004) by Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), ss. 109(1), 110, Sch. 8 para. 207; S.I. 2004/2066, art. 2(c)(xi) (subject to art. 3)