http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/43/section/96Magistrates’ 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 III961A magistrates’ court shall not commit any person to prison or other detention in default of payment of a sum enforceable as a civil debt or for want of sufficient goods to satisfy such a sum except by an order made on complaint and on proof to the satisfaction of the court that that person has, or has had since the date on which the sum was adjudged to be paid, the means to pay the sum or any instalment of it on which he has defaulted, and refuses or neglects or, as the case may be, has refused or neglected to pay it.2A complaint under this section may be made at any time notwithstanding anything in this or any other Act.3Where on any such complaint the defendant is committed to custody, such costs incurred by the complainant in proceedings for the enforcement of the sum as the court may direct shall be included in the sum on payment of which the defendant may be released from custody.Part III (ss. 75–96) modified: (E.W.) by Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 (c. 32, SIF 39:1), s. 6(4)(6); by Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33, SIF 39:1), ss. 75(5)(6), 123(6), Sch. 8 para. 16; (3.2.1995) by 1994 c. 37, ss. 9(4)(6), 69(2) (with s. 66(2))Part III (ss. 75-96) extended (1.9.1994) by 1994 c. 22, ss. 32(3)(a), 41(3)(a), 66(1)Part III (ss. 75-96) applied (with modifications) (24.3.2003) (E.W.) by 2002 c. 29, ss. 35(3), 458(1)(3); S.I. 2003/333, art. 2 Sch.Pt. III applied (1.10.2009) by Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (c. 4), ss. 85, 153; S.I. 2009/2606, art. 2(f)Pt. III restricted (prosp.) by Education and Skills Act 2008 (c. 25), ss. 56, 57, 58, 173Pt. III modified (6.4.2010) by The Community Infrastructure Levy Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/948), regs. 1, 97(10)Word in s. 96(1) substituted (6.4.2014) by Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (c. 15), s. 148, Sch. 13 para. 55 (with s. 89); S.I. 2014/768, art. 2(1)(b)