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98c. 43
Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980

Sch. 3

8. Subsection (6) of section 33 of the 1925 c. 86.Criminal Justice Act 1925 shall apply to a representative for the purposes of this Schedule as it applies to a representative for the purposes of that section.


Section 76.

SCHEDULE 4
Maximum Periods of Imprisonment in Default of Payment

1. Subject to the following provisions of this Schedule, the periods set out in the second column of the following Table shall be the maximum periods applicable respectively to the amounts set out opposite thereto, being amounts due at the time the imprisonment is imposed.

Table
An amount not exceeding £25. 7 days
An amount exceeding £25 but not exceeding £50 14 days
An amount exceeding £50 but not exceeding £200 30 days
An amount exceeding £200 but not exceeding £500 60 days
An amount exceeding £500 but not exceeding £1,000 90 days
An amount exceeding £1,000 but not exceeding £2,500 6 months
An amount exceeding £2,500 but not exceeding £5,000 9 months
An amount exceeding £5,000 12 months

2.—(1) Where the amount due at the time imprisonment is imposed is so much of a sum adjudged to be paid by a summary conviction as remains due after part payment, then, subject to sub-paragraph (2) below, the maximum period applicable to the amount shall be the period applicable to the whole sum reduced by such number of days as bears to the total number of days therein the same proportion as the part paid bears to the whole sum.

(2) In calculating the reduction required under sub-paragraph (1) above any fraction of a day shall be left out of account and the maximum period shall not be reduced to less than 5 days.

3. The maximum period applicable to a sum of any amount enforceable as a civil debt shall be 6 weeks.


Section 130.

SCHEDULE 5
Transfer of Remand Hearings

1. A court which, on adjourning a case, makes an order under section 130(1) of this Act is not required at that time to fix the time and place at which the case is to be resumed but shall do so as soon as practicable after the order ceases to be in force.

2. Where an order under subsection (1) of section 130 of this Act is made in the course of proceedings which, for the purposes of section 8 of this Act, are committal proceedings, proceedings relating to the accused before the alternate court are also committal proceedings for those purposes.