PART IIIFixed Penalties
Miscellaneous and supplemental
48Jurisdiction of the district court in Scotland
(1)
Notwithstanding anything in any enactment or rule of law to the contrary it shall be competent for a district court in Scotland to try any of the offences mentioned in Schedules 1 and 2 to this Act.
(2)
Nothing in this section shall empower the district court in respect of any offence—
(a)
to impose—
(i)
a penalty of imprisonment which exceeds sixty days; or
(ii)
a fine which exceeds level 4 on the standard scale; or
(b)
subject to subsection (3) below, to impose disqualification within the meaning of the 1972 Act.
(3)
Where a person is convicted in the district court of an offence referred to in subsection (1) above, being an offence involving obligatory endorsement.—
(a)
the court shall order that particulars of the conviction shall be endorsed on any licence held by him in accordance with section 101 of the 1972 Act; and
(b)
if the penalty points to be taken into account under section 19(3) of the M1Transport Act 1981 number twelve or more, the court shall order him to be disqualified under section 19(2) of that Act.
(4)
Until the commencement of section 54 of the M2Criminal Justice Act 1982, for the reference to level 4 on the standard scale in subsection (2) above there shall be substituted a reference to £200.